Southern Metropolitan Region
Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (12:50): (325) My constituency question is for the Minister for Education, and it is in relation to cuts to the visiting teacher service. My constituents Rebecca and Simon have two children with albinism who are vision-impaired. The children receive significant education and social benefits from specialist visiting teachers who have specific skills to provide personalised programs that enable these students to access the full school curriculum. Rebecca and Simon told me they are extremely concerned about drastic cuts to the visiting teacher service and the devastating impact it would have on their children’s educational opportunities and wellbeing. I ask the minister: will you reverse these cruel cuts so that the services of visiting teachers will not be reduced and that vision-impaired children such as Simon and Rebecca’s can continue to have this critical support?