Fiona O'Loughlin
Question:201. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the first and full-year cost of restoring the school completion programme to peak levels of funding. [49891/18]
View answerThursday, 29 November 2018
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This question has been answered previously. I would refer the Deputy to the answer to PQ48526/18 answered on November 21st 2018 and the answer to PQ 43136/18 answered on October 18th 2018. The response to those questions was as follows:
"As the Deputy may be aware, responsibility for the National Educational Welfare Board which included the School Completion Programme (SCP) was transferred to my Department on its establishment in 2011.
Upon the establishment of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency on January 1st 2014, operational responsibility for the SCP was transferred to the Agency.
The SCPs are funded in line with the academic year commencing in September each year. The funding available to the SCP for the school year 2018/2019 stands at €24.7 million.
The Educational Welfare Service (EWS) of Tusla has advised that the first and full-year cost of restoring the SCP to peak levels of funding would be €7.3 million."