Three children with special educational needs began their first full day at school this morning - two months after everyone else.
Their school, St Raphael’s Special School in Cellbridge, has been accommodating them for just one hour per day because it said it did not have enough Special Needs Assistants.
In September, the Department of Education was highly critical of the school's stance. It said the school had enough assistants.
But now the Department has agreed to provide two more SNAs after a formal assessment deemed they were needed.
The parents of the three children have welcomed the fact that their children can now enjoy a full day in school.
Last month the school told RTÉ news that they had lost four Special Needs Assistants in the space of a year.
At the same time, it said, its enrolment was growing and the care needs of the children coming in were greater than the needs of the children who were leaving.
