Education (Welfare) (Amendment) Bill 2017

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The measure would extend school-attendance rules to children under 6 who are already enrolled in a recognised school, such as junior or senior infants. If parents choose to enrol a child that young, they would have to make sure the child attends each school day, while the compulsory school age itself would remain 6 to 16. It matters because it gives the education welfare system a clearer role in preventing non-attendance among very young pupils, without changing the wider rules on when children must start school.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the further coordination of the activities of the National Educational Welfare Board or, in the Irish language, an Bord Náisiúnta Leasa Oideachais, in so far as they relate to matters connected with the prevention of non-attendance on the part of certain students registered with recognised schools and for those and other purposes to amend the Education (Welfare) Act 2000 and to provide for related matters

Last updated 19 February 2020