Western Metropolitan Region
Trung LUU (Western Metropolitan) (12:53): (1563) My question is for the Minister for Education and concerns the shortage of education support for children with disabilities within the current school system in my electorate. A constituent of mine has two children with autism spectrum disorder. One is in grade 6, and the other one is in year 2. The school she is attending is a special school and only caters up to year 3. Both are now forced to go to mainstream schools. The zoned state school they have been in has been assessed to be inappropriate for both children due to their large populations. So my question is: can the minister please update my constituents if the Department of Education is committed to increasing funding for specialist schools in the western suburbs?