One could not go to school for two years when the Education Authority failed to provide transport.
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It was found both pupils were "treated differently to other children in the state" because of their disability.The legal action was brought by the Children's Law Centre , acting on behalf of the pupils.However, some details of the cases, which both involved clinically vulnerable and profoundly disabled children, can be reported.
As a result she was unable to enter either primary one or primary two, though she did receive some education at home from the EA from February 2022. In the second case, the parent had to drive their child to school each day, with a healthcare assistant and equipment, due to the failure of the EA to provide appropriate transport from 24 February 2021 until June 2022.
Rachel Hogan, from the Children's Law Centre, said that the human rights declarations in both cases were "landmark declarations".
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