Applications for School Summer Programme to Be Reopened

Summer programme applications for children with complex needs to reopen after ‘botched’ launch

Opposition says decision to open online applications portal for nine days only was ‘deeply unfair and badly handled’

Department reopens summer support applications after schools complain about eight-day window

'The real-life consequences of all this is that children with additional needs are now locked out of vital education support this summer,' Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty told the Dáil

Applications for July Provision to reopen after parents and schools missed one-week window

The Summer Programme provides extra educational support for children with special educational needs during the summer holidays.

Applications for school summer programme to be reopened

The Department of Education has declined to tell the Dáil how many children are still without places in special and additional needs classes.