Special Needs Assistants Allocations
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In light of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis the new Frontloaded Allocation Model for Special Needs Assistants (SNAs), for students in mainstream classes in primary and post-primary schools has been deferred until the beginning of the 2021/22 school year.
The regional information and briefing sessions that the department intended to run before the end of this school year will also be deferred.
These sessions are key to helping school leaders and teachers in their planning for the introduction of the new model and their engagement with parents. They will be rescheduled for an appropriate future date.
It is now too late to run the traditional applications-based process for the allocation of the SNAs for 2020/21 school year. Special arrangements are being put in place that will facilitate continuity and certainty for schools, SNAs and parents.
The following arrangements will apply for the school year 2020/2021 :
Circular 0030/2020 outlines:
SNA allocations for special classes and special schools are not affected by this arrangement.
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