The Mick Clifford Podcast: The fight for special education access in Ireland
Providing an education for all children should be a basic duty of the state. Yet, for some reason, it doesn’t happen in this country
Providing an education for all children should be a basic duty of the state. Yet, for some reason, it doesn’t happen in this country.
Every year, there are children with special needs who can’t access either a place in a special school or a place in a special class in mainstream education.
Why, in a country as allegedly developed as this, have we not been able to get this basic duty right?
Rebecca Meehan, a mother of a child with additional needs, and education correspondent Jess Casey join the podcast.
