Debate contribution: Classroom Assistants

Debate contribution by Mr Danny Baker on 22 June 2026.

MLA: Mr Danny Baker
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 22 June 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Classroom Assistants
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5638330

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Minister, classroom assistants play a vital role in our classrooms. They are deeply concerned about the direction of travel and are worried about children losing out on their one-to-one support. It will be in your actions, not your words that you are judged. You will have heard, even in what has been said today, that kids are being placed in the wrong settings and that they are then blamed and end up on reduced timetables. Will you give a cast-iron guarantee that no child who is entitled to one-to-one support will lose out under your plans?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 3766/22-27.

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