AQW 12387/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Education
To ask the Minister of Education whether special educational needs units within primary and post-primary schools will reopen from 4 January 2021.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 31 December 2020
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Priority
- Tabled
- 31 December 2020
- Answer due by
- 6 January 2021
- Answered
- 12 January 202112 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Education
- Priority question
- Yes
Answer
My Assembly Statement to the Ad Hoc Committee on 6 January 2021, https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/news/statement-education-minister-ad-hoc-committee-1, sets out clearly that all schools are to remain open to vulnerable children and young people, and children of key workers, for access to supervised learning.
The definition of Vulnerable Children and Young People includes, amongst others, all children with statements of Special Educational Needs.
Where there are Special Units attached to a school, these will not be open for normal teaching and learning, however, vulnerable or key worker children can still attend the school for supervised learning.