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"92.5% of children are still attending segregated schools in the North, this needs to change"

Calls are being made for more to be done politically to desegregate schools in Northern Ireland. ...

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11.41 7 May 2021


"92.5% of children are still attending segregated schools in the North, this needs to change"


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11.41 7 May 2021


Calls are being made for more to be done politically to desegregate schools in Northern Ireland.

Currently 92.5% of young people in the North are still attending segregated schools; so they either go to an all Catholic school or an all Protestant school.

And this is despite the Good Friday Agreement stating that integrated education should be encouraged and facilitated.

Our reporter Barry Whyte has been speaking to young people who say things need to change....


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