Why schools can't take the State to court over treatment of children with additional needs. [A very long 🧵] (30ish tweets to start a discussion) #edchatie 1/In this thread, I want to explain the above because there are a number of people who say they advocate for children and their families and schools don't. I want to explain why this isn't the case.

PRIMARY SCHOOL SNA ALLOCATIONS IN NUMBERS 🧵
1️⃣ 1,100 new SNA allocations were announced by the DoE and welcomed by partners this week. Of the 1,100 new allocations 489.4 were given to primary level. Let's drill into the data. Feel free to ask any questions. 2️⃣ 439.21 of these hours are for new/increased special classes, representing about 90% of all new SNA allocations.

1. Today secretaries learned exactly how valued they actually are by @NormaFoleyTD1 and all of her wellwishers when this was announced. 2. I've rarely seen some much praise for a Minister for Education for anything - look at the tweets! #edchatie

#edchatie The "reopening of schools" document summarised in as few tweets as possible.

1. The objective is to open schools to all pupils unless we can't.
2. The reason seems to be social distancing.
3. 2m = 1 day per week per pupil
4. 1m = half a week per pupil

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5. Guidance will be given to schools in July
6. COVID19 training will have to be given but no info on this
7. Hand Hygiene will be important. It is envisaged that this will be managed via a drawdown framework for use by schools but no info on funding on this.

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