{"id":141166,"date":"2025-09-16T12:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141166\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:57:06","slug":"paul-givan-education-minister-labels-ai-speech-accusation-a-cheap-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141166\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Givan: Education minister labels AI speech accusation a ‘cheap shot’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier, Givan said the “urgent requirement” for SEN provision was “one of the most pressing challenges facing our education system”.<\/p>\n

Last month, it was revealed that six SEN children in Northern Ireland had been left with no school place for September.<\/a><\/p>\n

Givan said SEN capital projects needed “dedicated, earmarked funding” and warned that, otherwise, “educational inequality will deepen”.<\/p>\n

“Last week I wrote to ministerial colleagues to ask them to support detailed proposals for ring-fenced special educational needs capital funding of around \u00a31.7bn, separate from the main education capital budget,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Today I appeal to members of this assembly to back me in this call.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Education Authority (EA) said work on SEN provision for 2026-27 was well under way.<\/p>\n

“Ongoing engagement with schools in areas of highest need for SEN provision is a priority for the EA every year,” it said.<\/p>\n

“We know at first hand the consequences of severe budgetary constraints on education \u2013 we see them every day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, Givan said the “urgent requirement” for SEN provision was “one of the most pressing challenges facing our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-141166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}