Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board welcomes the announcement today by Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, and the Minister of State with responsibility for Special Education and Inclusion, Josepha Madigan TD, confirming the establishment of a new community special school in Limerick. The new school will operate under the patronage of Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board and will open in September 2024. It will provide for children with a moderate general learning disability and complex needs up to eighteen years of age, with an initial focus on those children who do not yet have an offer of a special school place for September 2024.
The Department of Education, together with the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), has been working with Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board and other stakeholders to provide additional specialist school placements for children with special educational needs in the Limerick area. Further details in relation to the location of the new school, the admission process and the number of places to be offered for the 2024/25 school year will be confirmed shortly. Planning for the establishment of the new special school between Department officials, the ETB and the NCSE will commence immediately.
George O’Callaghan, Chief Executive, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board said: “I want to thank Ministers Foley and Madigan, as well as the Department of Education and NCSE, for their endorsement in identifying Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board as the patron to establish this new school. As the state education and training authority for the region, we are committed to working with all relevant stakeholders on behalf of children with special educational needs and their families to provide the best possible learning environments in which the students can excel.”
Ministers Foley and Madigan both complimented Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board on its significant commitment in the establishment of special classes in all its Community National Schools, Community Colleges and Community Schools across the region. The ETB is fulfilling its duty to the community in providing inclusive education for families in Limerick and Clare and this new school builds on that strong reputation.
Additional information about the new community special school is available at www.limerickcss.ie.
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