In this the second episode of season two, we go Inside our Schools and we shine a torch on the vital area of Special Education classes.

Joining me for a chat tonight is Graham Manning, who is a secondary school autism class coordinator. Those on Twitter would be quite familiar with Graham and his absolute Trojan work on behalf of autistic children and their parents, of course, and the promotion of autism classes within secondary schools.

Over the course of the next hour or so Graham takes me through some of the extraordinary work done and the supports that are given to autistic children in autism classes, in secondary schools in Ireland, he delves into the chronic underfunding and the frustrating lack of provision of such classes around the country.

And we also discussed or take a look at other models of special education delivery, such as the new Brunswick model and closer to home, we discussed the proposed or the possible proposed model. The National Council for Special Education was floating here in Ireland more recently.