Education (Guidance Counselling Provision) Bill 2017
Public bill · Private Member · Introduced
The Minister for Education and Skills would have to publish a yearly study on the effect of keeping guidance counselling within the normal school staffing allowance rather than giving it separate funding. That study would name schools that cut guidance counselling because of the change, and focus especially on DEIS schools, looking at how reduced counselling affects students’ wellbeing and their chances of moving on to further education and training.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby the Minister for Education and Skills shall publish an annual education impact study on the effects his or her decision to continue with the provision of guidance counselling within the standard staffing schedule on schools; such study to include details of the names of schools that have reduced their guidance counselling provision as a direct result of this arrangement, with particular emphasis on those schools that have DEIS status and the impact of the reduced provision of guidance counselling on those schools including the impact on student's wellbeing and progression to further education and training.
Last updated 13 February 2020
- Carol Nolan Primary
- First StageDáil
- Education (Guidance Counselling Provision) Bill 2017: First Stage Dáil