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Free Primary Schoolbooks Scheme
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Please note: The revised guidelines for 2024/2025 are being finalised and will be published in the coming weeks
The Free Primary Schoolbooks Scheme in primary schools will remove the cost from families of funding schoolbooks for children and young people enrolled in recognised primary schools and special schools. Parents will no longer be required to make any contribution towards the cost of schoolbooks, including the cost of any workbooks and copybooks. Where the funding allows, some related classroom resources may also be provided by schools under the new scheme. Schools will communicate with parents in relation to the scope of the scheme in their school.
The Guidelines for Free Primary Schoolbooks Scheme in schools were developed to assist primary schools and special schools to implement the scheme in advance of the 2023/24 school year.
