The Department for Communities (DfC) presents its Social Fund Account which has been prepared in accordance with a direction issued by the Department of Finance (DoF) in pursuance of section 146(4) of the Social Security Administration (NI) Act 1992. The …
The main body of the Report includes a Disability Access Review. Sections 10 and 11 contain tables which provide further detail on the results of the access review. If you should wish to receive a copy of Sections 10 & 11, these can be requested at …
The underlying aim is to help ensure that gambling is conducted in a fair and open way; protecting persons under the age of 18 and other vulnerable persons from being harmed or exploited by gambling; and make assistance available to persons who are or may …
Under the revised policy, Working Age people, including certain mixed age couples (MAC) (couples where one member of the couple is over State Pension Age and the other is not) who were protected from the introduction of the mixed age couple’s policy in …
Changes are required to legislation providing for disability and carers’ benefits relating to the genuine and sufficient link (GSL) test. The proposed amendments will update the legislation in line with the Court of Appeal decision in Kavanagh & Anor v …
The Five Cs project area comprises College Court, College Street (from College Avenue to Queen Street) Callender Street as well as the junctions of Upper Arthur Street and Montgomery Street with Chichester Street. The project aims to create a high quality, …
The Northern Ireland Housing Statistics report is an annual compendium of statistics containing information on a range of areas relating to housing. The report is divided into sections covering: supply, energy, social renting demand, private renting demand …
The Act was introduced to continue to improve the private rented sector by creating a safer and more secure environment for tenants and to avoid unnecessary fatalities and injuries occurring due to faults with any rental property’s hard-wired electrical …
The first two independent reviews undertaken on behalf of the Department for Communities (DfC) related to the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) and the Commissioner for Older People (COPNI). The aim of the reviews was to …
This quarterly publication provides an overview on the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland. This publication contains information up to the quarter ending June 2024
The new CF73 (Notification of Hospital Admission for patients on Benefit or State Pension) should be fully completed by an admission clerk upon any DfC customers admission. The customer’s National Insurance Number and all of the benefits they are in …
The Council acts as a statutory advisor to the Department for Communities (DfC) covering historic buildings. This supports the work of DfC in treasuring the past and thereby enriching the future, recognising the multiple ways in which the historic …
Date published: 27 August 2024 A lack of a PVL, or too high a limit, runs the risk of qualifying some people on affordability grounds who could access an otherwise appropriate and less expensive property without intervention. Equally, a PVL which is too …
The Benefits Statistics Summary is released quarterly in the last week of February, May, August and November.
Date published: 23 August 2024 This screening considers the equality obligations undertaken in respect of only the 2024-25 departmental business plan. Inclusion or exclusion of activities is determined by what is achievable across all business plans …
Date published: 23 August 2024 Section 34(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 requires that the Department prepare an annual report of its proceedings under that Act and the Charities (Northern Ireland) Order 1987. Whilst most functions have …
Date published: 16 August 2024 Navigation information - Pontoons at Stranmillis 19 August - 16 September 2024. Notice is hereby given that Drift NI have been given permission to erect a temporary floating event space linked to the existing downstream …
Date published: 22 August 2024 This project details the findings of a research study examining common benefit combinations for Northern Ireland. It was undertaken as part of the Department’s Economic and Social Research Programme 2022/24 and examines the …
The Department requests information from councils at the end of each Quarter on the processing of invoices as detailed in the circular LG 19/2016 Prompt Payment Guidance. LGHR publish comparative analysis on council performance to show members of the …
The Department for Communities is the sponsor Department for Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (AOP). The Partnership Agreement explains the overall governance framework within which AOP operates, including the framework through which the necessary …
