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Buddy Bear TrustCONDUCTIVE EDUCATION SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND MOTOR DISORDERS IN DUNGANNON |
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Buddy Bear TrustCONDUCTIVE EDUCATION SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND MOTOR DISORDERS IN DUNGANNON |
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Dr Ian Paisley, First Minister and Mr Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister accept their White Knight ties of the Buddy Bear Trust from Brendan Mc Conville on the 18th of February 2008.
Dr Paisley was presented with a White Knight Tie along with all the other MP's from Northern Ireland in 1989 when they presented a letter to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, London requesting Conductive Education to be made available for children suffering from cerebral palsy. It is calculated that they are 900 children and young people with cerebral palsy in Northern Ireland. The Assembly will debate Conductive Education on the 19th of February 2008. |
Dr Paisley and Mr McGuinness met Zara and her mother Caroline Buchanan from Coleraine and Daniel and Mrs Mary Murphy from Newry. Zara has been attending the Buddy Bear School for over a year. The Buddy Bear Trust has to raise the funds to support Zara as the NELB has not agreed to place Zara in the Buddy Bear School which is the only Conductive Education School in Northern Ireland recognised and inspected by the Department of Education
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Mrs Mary Murphy, Miss Ildiko Veres, Principal and Brendan McConville, Chairman with Buddy Bear, the symbol of the campaign to save the school for children with cerebral palsy.
Mr Peter Robinson MP, MLA Minister for Finance and Personnel Department of Finance & Personnel
Mr Brendan McConville, Chairman of the Buddy Bear Trust presents a White Knight tie to Peter Robinson MP MLA. The Trust works to develop the Dungannon based, Buddy Bear School which caters exclusively for children suffering from cerebral palsy.
The Trust and the Assembly Members have to convince the Education Minister and the Education Boards to make funds available to protect and develop the Buddy Bear School.
The Assembly at its meeting on 19 Feb 2008 agreed that the school should be supported and funded.
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Ms Dawn Purvis, MLA signs the Triangle of Hope photograph and pledges her support for the protection and development of the Buddy Bear School in Dungannon. Ms Dawn Purvis, MLA, Brendan Mc Conville, Chairman and Ms Ildiko Veres, Principal. Ms Purvis is a true champion for children with special needs, perticularly for children suffering from Cerebral Palsy. See Press Statment. |
Mr Paul Butler, MLA (SF) and Member of the Education Committee signs the Pledge of Support photograph. Mr Butler was a member of the Education Committee, Chaired by Mr Sammy Wilson, MLA, MP when deputation from the Buddy Bear Trust gave evidence to the Committee on the 29th of February 2008. It is hoped that with the support of Mr Butler and the other Members of the Education Committy together with the Assembly Members that funds will be made available to support the Buddy Bear Trust until a full appraisal is carried out into the needs of children with Cerebral Palsy. "We must consider each child as an individual. We must examine how best to help the child from as young as 6 months until he/she leaves school at 19 years of age. We must have a joined up Government approach to ensure that after school care and support is available to ensure that each child has the oppertunity for independant living if at all possible." Brendan Mc Conville
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