Provision of education for children with special educational needs

What this means

• The Department of Education is legally required to ensure children with special educational needs receive education in an inclusive environment with proper supports.[source]
• This duty comes from the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004, which sets out the framework for how the state must support these children.[source]
• Supports required under this mandate include special classes and special school places, meaning the Department must actively provide these resources.[source]
• This mandate matters for accountability because it creates a binding obligation on the Department, allowing the public to hold it to account if children are not receiving required supports.[source]

Direct impact (2)

• duty held by body
  Department of EducationBody
• implements mandate via commitment
  Expand special classes and special school placesCommitment

Indirect impact (5)

Two-hop relationships traced through the entity above. Useful for spotting downstream knock-on effects.

• duty held by body → owns statutory mandate2-hop via dept-education
  Provision and oversight of first- and second-level educationMandate
• duty held by body → responsible for commitment2-hop via dept-education
  Reduce the primary pupil-teacher ratio to 19:1Commitment
• duty held by body → holds role: Minister for Education and Youth2-hop via dept-education
  Hildegarde NaughtonOfficeholder
• duty held by body → holds role: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth2-hop via dept-education
  Michael MoynihanOfficeholder
• duty held by body → holds role: Secretary General, Department of Education2-hop via dept-education
  Bernie McNallyOfficeholder