‘They will all be pushed under the one umbrella’ – concerned mother says new special schools policy is causing chaos

‘They will all be pushed under the one umbrella’ – concerned mother says new special schools policy is causing chaos

Children with mild general learning disabilities are often caught between two stools, but ‘will achieve in the right environment’

Kathryn Laing and her four-year-old daughter Clodagh

A mother has said she fears her four-year-old daughter, who has Down syndrome, will be “funnelled into a mainstream school” without the appropriate supports due to policy changes by the Department of Education.

Kathryn Laing’s daughter Clodagh has completed her first year in a mainstream pre-school.