Home Based Provision 2023

Table of Contents Introduction The home-based summer programme will be available for children with complex needs where their schools are not providing a school-based programme. Under the home-based programme grant funding is made available so that parents/legal guardians can engage the services of a Teacher or an SNA to provide tuition or care support as […]

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2023 Summer Programme Eligibility Update

We are still waiting on the DoE to release details of this years Home Based Summer Programme. Although there have been public announcements by the Minister for Education and Minister of State with responsibility for Special Education and Inclusion on what may be included this year, we expect that this years programme will mirror extensively […]

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Budget 2022 / 2023

With the budget due to be published tomorrow we’ve set out some provisional details below that we expect the Minister of Finance to announce in the Dail. The budget package will very likely not be above €7 billion, with the cost-of-living package expected to come in at around €3 billion, with an estimated €1 billion […]

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Statutory Declarations

A statutory declaration form that was signed / witnessed last year (2021) will remain valid up to the end of this year (2022). Only a declaration form supplied as part of the summer programme documentation (Appendix 1) is acceptable by the DES. It is very important to note that a declaration for a teaching position […]

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