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07/10/2004
Agencies must work together to put children first, says Gardiner
Education Minister Barry Gardiner has challenged the education sector to help make a difference in the lives of children, by working together to put children first.
Speaking at the Annual Conference of the Association of Northern Ireland Education and Library Boards, he said that all those involved in education had an important role to play.
He said: "Making a difference for these children, helping them achieve what really matters to them will require all of us in education to look beyond the school walls, to acknowledge the skills of other professionals and to work collaboratively and co-operatively in the interests of the child."
Mr Gardiner highlighted a number of good examples of collaborative working within and across the education, social services and voluntary sectors, such as the Area Child Protection Committees and the School Age Mothers’ Programme.
The Minister also said that Education Action Zones (EAZs), which were announced late last year, could provide a longer term means of addressing the "deep seated, endemic problems which some schools are facing, particularly in areas where poverty, drug abuse and violence, are rife".
(MB/GMCG)
Speaking at the Annual Conference of the Association of Northern Ireland Education and Library Boards, he said that all those involved in education had an important role to play.
He said: "Making a difference for these children, helping them achieve what really matters to them will require all of us in education to look beyond the school walls, to acknowledge the skills of other professionals and to work collaboratively and co-operatively in the interests of the child."
Mr Gardiner highlighted a number of good examples of collaborative working within and across the education, social services and voluntary sectors, such as the Area Child Protection Committees and the School Age Mothers’ Programme.
The Minister also said that Education Action Zones (EAZs), which were announced late last year, could provide a longer term means of addressing the "deep seated, endemic problems which some schools are facing, particularly in areas where poverty, drug abuse and violence, are rife".
(MB/GMCG)
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