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TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION:

A Holistic Approach to early School Leaving and School Retention in Blanchardstown: Current Issues and Future Steps for Services and Schools

SURNAME AND NAME OF AUTHOR(S):

Dr. Paul Downes, Dr. Catherine Maunsell &
Jo-Hanna Ivers

PUBLISHER:

Blanchardstown Area Partnership Your Plan - Your Future

PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION:

Ireland 2006

TYPE OF PUBLICATION:

Study

LANGUAGE/S OF PUBLICATION:

English

LANGUAGE OF REVIEW:

English

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:

This Report examines current interventions and gaps in provision with regard to actual and potential early school leavers from 10 –17 years mainly in the
Blanchardstown, Dublin. It seeks to make recommendations as to how services and schools could provide Blanchardstown’s youth population with an improved ‘continuum of care’.

Young people’s direct input into the consultation process was obtained through questionnaires given to all 6th classes and 1st year classes in the selected schools. Service users were interviewed from 9 core local services.
The key conclusions and recommendations are based on an integrated, holistic and community response to early school leaving in the area.

COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLICATION:

This study and the application of its findings has the potential of being a national model for addressing the issue of early school leaving in Ireland in an integrated manner

NAME OF COMPILER:

Ann Caulfield

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

Mayo Education Centre

ROLE:

Researcher



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Stay@School at the Future of Education Conference

The Stay@School projet will be presented at the third edition of the “Future of Education” international conference, held in Florence, Italy, on 13 - 14 June 2013. Over 250 participants from all over the world will attend the conference. The conference participants belong to the sectors of higher education, school education, vocational education and training as well as adult education, therefore representing all of the target groups of the Stay@School project.

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