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The Department of Education and Skills published a consultation paper on the role of denominational religion in the school admissions process on 24 January 2017. This consultation paper outlined a number of possible approaches for addressing the issue of the role of religion in school\u2019s admissions policies and invited interested parties to provide their observations on this topic. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Ombudsman for Children\u2019s Office welcomed the opportunity to make a submission on this issue and made recommendations in the areas of the role of religion in school admissions, the right of children to be heard during this consultation process and the removal of religion from the integrated curriculum. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2585,"template":"","class_list":["post-2396","library","type-library","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource_type-submission","resource_topic-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nObservations of the Ombudsman for Children\u2019s Office to the Department of Education and Skills\u2019 consultation on the role of religion in the school admissions process - Ombudsman for Children<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oco.ie\/ga\/library\/oco-observations-on-role-of-religion-in-school-admissions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Observations of the Ombudsman for Children\u2019s Office to the Department of Education and Skills\u2019 consultation on the role of religion in the school admissions process - Ombudsman for Children\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department of Education and Skills published a consultation paper on the role of denominational religion in the school admissions process on 24 January 2017. 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