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Mon 04 Apr 2007Department reneging on its duties, says parents' councilThe Department of Education and Science is putting economic considerations ahead of schoolchildren's safety and creating a "worrying vacuum at the heart of the education system", the chief executive of the National Parents Council (Primary) (NPC) has said.Fionnuala Kilfeather, speaking at the NPC's annual delegate conference in Dublin at the weekend, said the move by the department to put responsibility for what happens in schools on boards of management was misguided.