*Minister for Children, Disability and Equality, Norma Foley (FF). Photograph: Natasha Barton MINISTER FOR Children, Disability and Equality, Norma Foley (FF) has admitted the system for managing the assessment of needs for children is broken.
*Photograph: Natasha Barton. ENABLE IRELAND’s €1.2m residential respite service in Barefield has been officially opened.
TUSLA are to double the number of social workers in Clare this summer but service gaps are leading to children from the county being sent for placement in Donegal and Cork.
*Aoife Garrahy (Teacher), Jack Casey (6th class Toonagh NS), Norma Foley, Gearóid Roughan (Principal) and Ellie Carroll (6th class Toonagh NS). TOONAGH NS was one of eighteen schools in the country chosen to outline the initiatives they have in place to promote pupil wellbeing and to prevent bullying.
WORK on the development of a 30,000 square feet extension of St. Flannan’s College has commenced after the Department of Education approved the development of new classroom space at the Ennis secondary school.
*Pictured are the overall winning team from St. Joseph’s Spanish Point, Co Clare , Captain Roisin Molohan ( left) with her team mates Lucy O’Keeffe, Alysha Sexton, Eve Barry and Ava Harrison. Photograph: Arthur Ellis STUDENTS from St Joseph’s Secondary School in Spanish Point claimed the top prize and a €2000 cheque for the school …
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ALL SCHOOLS in Clare will be able to apply for free solar panels under a new programme.
*Photograph: Brian Arthur. UP TO 50,000 ‘green jobs’ over the next thirty years are among the targets of the Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce report.
*Minister Norma Foley with staff and students from St John’s NS. Photograph: Joe Buckley MINISTER FOR EDUCATION, Norma Foley (FF) was quizzed by Shannon students during a recent visit to the county.
1,458 CLARE students commenced the Leaving Certificate on Wednesday.