Why Does the Dept of Education Want My 10 Year Old Daughter's PPS Number?

Hi there,
Well every child accessing the free pre school year would submit PPS number and every student going forward for examination at second level would also have to submit same so I guess they are just bringing primary sector in to line too. Don't have any explanation as to why apart from fact that Dept have told us their plan is to allocate funding/teachers/etc to schools in future according to the numbers of pupils they have on database. If you have a look on education.ie and click on the parents tab, scroll down the page and click on Primary Online Database and you'll find far more indepth answer. By the way, you can return the form with just the child's mother's maiden name and that will do instead of submitting PPS if you'd prefer not to. HTH

ooops!Didn't realise we were going over old ground. Guess it has all been said in that thread. Thanks Byhook...