Debate contribution: Special Schools: Nursing Provision

Debate contribution by Mr Nick Mathison on 1 October 2024.

MLA: Mr Nick Mathison
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 1 October 2024
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Special Schools: Nursing Provision
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4562861

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Thank you, Minister. I am happy to provide more detail. Today, I met a group of special school principals from the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust area, along with the Education Minister and officials from the Education Department. They informed us about a very difficult situation that they are facing, whereby nursing provision is being withdrawn from their schools, and, indeed, from other special schools across Northern Ireland. Will the Minister commit to meeting those principals to hear about their concerns and the impact that that is having on the ability of those schools to deal with some of the most complex medical needs of children in the education system and will he commit to working with the Education Minister to address that issue?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 562/22-27.

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