The initiative is designed to stimulate and strengthen a culture of collaborative development planning in schools. Through fostering self-review and improvement, school development planning makes an important contribution to quality assurance in the educational system. Primary schools joined the initiative on a phased basis since September 1999. Inservice training in school development planning has been provided for all primary schools since September 2002. At second level inservice training in school development planning has been provided for all schools since the inception of the initiative.
The amount of money spent by my Department on the initiative since 1999 is as follows:
Primary Level