Health Minister Robin Swann and Education Minister Peter Weir have launched a new joint strategy for care-experienced children and young people. The ‘A Life Deserved: “Caring” for Children and Young People in Northern Ireland’ strategy aims to improve the well-being of children and young people, who are already in care, at risk of […]
A local woman is urging others to consider volunteering for the NSPCC-run service after she decided to dedicate her spare time to helping children and young people during the lockdown. Iris Brennan, 54, originally from Israel, lives in Lisburn with her partner and says lockdown helped her take the plunge and finally swap […]
A new Text-a-Nurse service has been launched to provide young people with a secure and confidential text messaging service to a school nurse for advice and support. The service is aimed at 11 to 19-year-olds and will be delivered by the School Nursing Teams. Welcoming the new initiative Education Minister, Peter […]
A new online system to register a complaint about public authorities failing to implement environmental law has gone live, Environment Minister Gordon Lyons MLA has announced. A new body, the Interim Environmental Governance Secretariat (IEGS), has been established on a temporary basis now that the European Commission no longer has an environmental oversight […]
Health Minister Robin Swann has launched a new campaign to help promote distance awareness. The campaign uses a consistent and instantly recognisable symbol, the Distance Aware Shield to help remind people to maintain a social distance. Organisations and individuals can support the campaign by wearing a badge or displaying a poster with the […]
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has announced that due to the ongoing pandemic she is extending the legislation protecting private renters from eviction to 30 September 2021. The Private Tenancies (Coronavirus Modifications) Act requires landlords to give tenants a 12-week notice to quit period before seeking a court order to begin proceedings to evict […]
Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard has said there is a strong commitment among the international community to see the Irish protocol implemented in full. He was speaking after briefing ambassadors and diplomatic staff from around the world this week alongside Uachtarán Shinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald and Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill. […]
Five local schools and colleges have been given special recognition for their high standard of cybersecurity teaching for the first time. Schools and colleges, including a special school, have received CyberFirst Schools and Colleges Gold, Silver and Bronze awards from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in a scheme supported by the NI […]
Officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland were part of a cross border Joint Agency Task Force operation that took place on Wednesday, 17 February 2021, focusing on rural crime. Working with our colleagues in An Garda Síochána, the operation spanned our border Districts and involved officers from Neighbourhood and Local Policing […]
The Health Minister has announced further funding of £754,800 for NI foster carers. This brings the total support provided to them to £1.39million since the start of the pandemic. Foster carers provide care for children looked after by social services teams when they are unable to live with their parent/s. There […]
