Debate contribution: Post-19 SEN Support
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 2 December 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Post-19 SEN Support
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4686667
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That is our ambition. I am sure that all of us, through our constituency duties, have represented people who have fallen off the edge of the system and no longer get support post 19. I have committed to trying to address that in my Department, because we have responsibility for further and higher education and skills, but that responsibility overlaps with other Departments' responsibilities. We have jointly bid for transformation funding to assist the four Departments to work collaboratively. If that bid is successful — hopefully it will be — the funding will give us significant impetus, but, even if it is not, we are committed to working to make improvements and to make sure that, in the areas of access to skills, access to careers advice and access to support, we do all in our power to change the approach that has for far too long not been giving young people who have special educational needs the proper support.
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