The deep failure to re-open Special Schools in Ireland

Ireland finds itself as the outlier in Europe for all the wrong reasons. We are the only country to have not reopened special education settings in the New Year. One of the harshest lessons the Department of Education learned during the first wave of Covid-19 in Ireland was the failure to reopen Special Education settings. It was damning and heart-breaking reading and hearing the stories of devastation the first wave of the pandemic caused for the parents of kids with …

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