{"id":765,"date":"2019-05-22T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T10:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/alternatives-to-using-schools-for-polling-stations-would-easy-burden-on-families-and-children\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:05:46","slug":"alternatives-to-using-schools-for-polling-stations-would-easy-burden-on-families-and-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/alternatives-to-using-schools-for-polling-stations-would-easy-burden-on-families-and-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to schools as polling stations would ease burden on families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Social Democrats local election candidate for Rathfarnham-Templeogue, Carly Bailey, has called on the Government to consider using alternative accessible venues to schools as polling stations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"et-pullquote\"><p>\u201cAs a parent of primary school children myself, I know it can be incredibly hard for families to make alternative arrangements for school closures and it often means having to pay for childcare.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Social Democrats local election candidate for Rathfarnham-Templeogue, Carly Bailey, has called on the Government to consider using alternative accessible venues to schools as polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Bailey said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 336,00 students attend schools which are scheduled to be used as polling stations for Friday\u2019s elections. According to Department of Education figures, 1,890 out of over 3,100 primary schools nationwide \u2013 over 60 per cent of the total \u2013 are likely to be closed on Friday. A small number of post primary schools and schools for children with special needs are also affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a parent of primary school children myself, I know it can be incredibly hard for families to make alternative arrangements for school closures and it often means having to pay for childcare. For children with additional needs in particular, the disruption to school days is something we should be trying to minimise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it\u2019s crucial that all voters have convenient local polling stations that are accessible to people with disabilities. But given the number of elections and referendums held on a regular basis, it\u2019s time for serious consideration to using other accessible locations, such as community centres and sports halls, as polling stations where practicable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>22<sup>nd<\/sup> May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats local election candidate for Rathfarnham-Templeogue, Carly Bailey, has called on the Government to consider using alternative accessible venues to schools as polling stations. \u201cAs a parent of primary school children myself, I know it can be incredibly hard for families to make alternative arrangements for school closures and it often means having to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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