DEIS: Delivering Equality Of Opportunity In Schools

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DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), which is the Action Plan for educational inclusion. This action plan aims to address the educational needs of children from disadvantaged areas in primary school and secondary schools, basically for children aged from three to eighteen years. DEIS believes that every child deserves an equal education, to reach their full potential in education and that education promotes social inclusion and economic development. If a school qualifies as a DEIS school, it allows the school access to home school community liaison services, it allows access to free healthy and nutritious meals for the children at school, which is funded by the Department of Social Protection, provides access to numeracy and