Claire Kerrane
Ceist:245. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost in 2022 of increasing the funding for the school completion programme by 10%. [49364/21]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 12 October 2021
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The School Completion Programme (SCP) is a key support under my Department’s Delivering Equality of Opportunity in School (DEIS) programme. The 2021 initial allocation for the School Completion Programme was €24.686 million.
In March 2021, I announced further supports to those schools catering for children and young people who are experiencing the highest levels of educational disadvantage, including a 5% increase in the funding for the programme together with an extension of SCP to include a further 28 schools that were new to DEIS in 2017. This additionality to SCP, costing €2.235 million in a full year, is effective from 1 September 2021.