Almost 11,000 Special Needs Assistants have filled out online forms for reassignment under a new process introduced to help deal with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Department of Education said that within 24-hours of Wednesday's announcement of the planned reassignment of SNAs more than 5000 SNAs had "signed up".
By this morning a total of almost 11,000 SNAs had returned the online surveys. Many SNAs expressed dismay and concern on social media when the measures were announced on Wednesday.
Among their concerns was a fear that they might be placed in roles where there was a danger of contracting the coronavirus. Read More: Covid-19: Special Needs Assistants to be redeployed to other public service dutiesAnxiety among