Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

DEIS An Action Plan for Social Inclusion

Department of Education and Science

Department of Education and Science

Ireland 2005

National Action Plan

English

English

This action plan focuses on addressing the educational needs of children and young people from disadvantaged communities, from pre-school through second-level education (3 to18 years). Its frame of reference is based on the definition of “educational disadvantage” in the
Education Act (1998) as:
“…the impediments to education arising from social or economic disadvantage which prevent students from deriving appropriate benefit from education in schools.”

The action plan is one element of a continuum of interventions to address disadvantage, which include second-chance education and training and access measures for adults to support increased participation by under-represented groups in further and higher education. It offers identification method of schools for inclusion in the system.

The document gives the background, the Social Inclusion context and responses to date. It outlines a framework and Action Plan incorporating Literacy and Numeracy, Second Level Education, the role of home and local community, school clustering, and the role of local services e.g. library system

It offers a plan for the period 2005 to 2008.

The Action Plan gives a positive and in-depth response to educational disadvantage and offers additional supports to particularly vulnerable groups, including Travellers

http://jcsp.slss.ie/resources/DEIS_action_plan_on_educational_inclusion.pdf

Ann Caulfield

Mayo Education Centre

Researcher