Role
Assistant Secretary, Special Education, NEPS and Redress
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From: Department of Education
- Published on: 19 August 2021
- Last updated on: 20 September 2024
Responsibility at Assistant Secretary level for the following areas:
- the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) psychologists work with both primary and post-primary schools and are concerned with learning, behaviour, social and emotional development
- Special Education Section is responsible for the development of policy for children with special educational needs and the development of comprehensive, efficient and effective services for these children
- Social Inclusion Unit is responsible for developing and promoting a co-ordinated department response to tackling educational disadvantage from pre-school through to second-level education (3 to 18 years)
- the Early Years Education Policy Unit is co-located with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure that policy developments in the early childhood sector are developed within an overall strategic policy framework for children