After careful consideration by the Executive Committee, the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, on 30 August 2024, used the Urgent Procedure process to take the decision to maintain parity with the rest of the UK. This means eligibility to the …
The bulletin presents analysis, including by demographic group and area, on the following topics: Sport participation Types of sport Sports club membership Note: Data collection for the 2023/24 CHS was carried out using a mix of telephone and face-to-face …
On 3 October 2024, the MAG annual symposium, held befittingly this year in the RIBA award winning St Comgall’s School, Belfast, was an opportunity to explore how collectively, we communicate and value what is important in the making of great places and how …
The Department's Equality Scheme commits the Department to submitting a formal review of progress, on an annual basis, to the Equality Commission, setting out the action taken to fulfill Section 75 commitments. This is the report carried out for the …
The Northern Ireland Football Fund (TNIFF) – Performance Club Strand is intended to modernise the physical infrastructure used by local performance clubs to play the game of football at senior level in Northern Ireland. Performance Clubs are defined as …
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 purpose of the proposed legislation is to amend various social security regulations to apply a new capital disregard to payments made from the estate of a deceased infected person which derive from payments made to the estate by an approved infected …
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 bulletin contains headline statistics on the following topics: participation in arts activities and attendance at arts events use of the public library service visited a museum or science centre visited PRONI visited a place of historic interest This …
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 …
This report focuses on two main areas which are the level of decision-making accuracy in social security benefits and the level of financial accuracy. The purpose of the report is to provide an assurance on the accuracy of decisions to award claims to …
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 Department for Communities is the sponsor Department for the Northern Ireland Museums Council. The Partnership Agreement explains the overall governance framework within which the Northern Ireland Museums Council operates, including the framework …
This test and learn pilot scheme proposal can be linked to the DFC “Building Inclusive Communities 2020-2025” strategy, the DFC Operational Strategy 2020-2025 and Northern Ireland Executive’s Programme for Government (PfG) (2016-2021) indicators and …
