Debate contribution: Preschool Admissions: Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances Criterion
Debate contribution by Mrs Michelle Guy on .
- MLA
- Mrs Michelle Guy
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Ministerial Statement
- Heading
- Preschool Admissions: Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances Criterion
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5669726
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Minister, I also hear from a huge number of families on the issues. I want all families to have the option of full-time preschool hours if they want them. Although your statement announces a consultation, in effect, through the way in which you are asking settings to implement the current legislation, you are ending the socially disadvantaged circumstances criterion. Would it not be more appropriate to wait for the findings of the consultation and the evidence that it produces before making any changes to the admissions criterion so that preschool and nursery-school leaders can have a say?
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