It is alleged that a supply company to the School Meals’ Programme has defrauded the Department of Social and Family Affairs of €750,000.

The NEWB analysis of school attendance data in primary and post-primary schools, from 2003-04 to 2005-06, was published on December 11.

The Minister’s announcement that places at Senior Traveller Training Centres will be cut “makes easy targets of people who most need education”.

In spite of recent attempts by the government to boost second-level retention rates, a major ESRI survey reveals that we have been at a stand-still since 1991.

There have been calls on the government to give children back their childhood after new research revealed that carers can be as young as six.