Debate contribution: Preschool Admissions: Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances Criterion
Debate contribution by Mr Pat Sheehan on .
- MLA
- Mr Pat Sheehan
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Ministerial Statement
- Heading
- Preschool Admissions: Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances Criterion
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5669718
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The Minister will be aware that there is incontrovertible evidence that children from disadvantaged backgrounds have poorer educational outcomes than their peers from more affluent backgrounds, hence the reason that the prioritisation criterion was brought in in the first place. Following on from the previous question, what other measures will the Minister introduce to ensure that our extraordinarily long tail of educational underachievement is not made any worse?
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