Organisations representing children with special educational needs have welcomed news that the Health Service Executive is making progress on matching children with significant needs with home-based SNA support.
HSE Chief Operations Officer Anne O' Connor said they have identified 400 children who have significant health needs and challenging behaviours and disabilities and that Special Needs Assistants are being deployed to support them.
It is understood more than 100 children have been allocated SNA support in recent days under the scheme. The programme to redeploy school Special Needs Assistants to work with families via the HSE was announced nine weeks ago.