Funding for dedicated school staff to support pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in Northern Ireland has been cut in half.
Each school has to appoint a teacher as a special educational needs coordinator.
But the overall funding to schools for that role has been reduced from £22m last year to £11m in 2023-24.
It is the latest cut to be made by Stormont's Department of Education in an attempt to make savings.
The department has already stopped a number of schemes to save money, including the school holiday food grant for children entitled to free school meals.
That came after funding for education was reduced in the 2023-24 Stormont budget.
But potential cuts in funding to a range of early years and pre-school programmes did not go ahead.
