604 WELB nurserykids turned away byfirst choice schools
Of 3,022 children turned down across Northern Ireland, 604 rejections were in WELB. The figure refers to statutory nursery places. Forty nine were refused voluntary or private first preferences.
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Hide AdMr O’Dowd said: “The pre-school admissions process is preference based. Therefore those children not offered a place by their 1st preference setting may be offered a place in another setting listed by their parents as a preference on their application.”
He added: “At the end of the 2013/14 pre-school admissions process, 99.9 per cent of target aged children, whose parents fully engaged with the process, were offered a funded place in a pre-school setting.”