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Asked by Michelle

AQW 26114/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Education

To ask the Minister of Education to detail any changes that have been made to the pre-school Published Admission Number allocation criteria and process for both statutory and non-statutory providers in each of the last five years.

Asked by Michelle Guy MLA on 11 April 2025

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Tabled
11 April 2025
Answer due by
30 April 2025
Answered
29 April 202518 days after tabling
Department
Department of Education
Priority question
No

Answer

The EA has advised that no changes have been made to the criteria and processes for allocating PANs to non-statutory providers over the past 5 years.

Statutory pre-school settings are not allocated a PAN, but rather they are set an admissions and enrolment number via a legislative process as set out in the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.

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