About a year ago, the Department of Education wrote to a load of schools in Dublin 15 to compel them to open Special Classes for Children with Autism. This was because the planning section of the NCSE hadn’t managed to organise the opening of special classes where there was the most need. Somehow, deals were done and Special Classes were opened. Lessons were to be learned and nothing like this could ever happen again. And here we are.

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