Motion or amendment: Creating a Level Playing Field in Pre-School Admissions
Motion or amendment by Mr Jonathan Buckley on .
- MLA
- Mr Jonathan Buckley
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 6 May 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Creating a Level Playing Field in Pre-School Admissions
- Assembly identifier
- Document 438343
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Creating a Level Playing Field in Pre-School Admissions
That this Assembly expresses alarm that working families are disadvantaged by the current admissions criteria for pre-school education; is concerned that the requirement for providers to give priority to children from socially disadvantaged circumstances frequently acts as a barrier to other children being placed at their parents’ preferred setting or at a setting close to where they live; notes, in particular, the inequality borne by children whose parents are both in employment; recognises that the current statutory criteria was introduced when there were not enough places for all children to attend pre-school, whereas today sufficient places exist in every part of Northern Ireland; welcomes progress toward the standardisation of full-time pre-school education; and calls on the Minister of Education, in this context, to outline his intention to provide a level playing field in pre-school admissions, including an indicative timeline for the removal of the current social disadvantage criterion.
156 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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