Student finance is a crucial enabler of higher level study, helping to ensure that access to higher education is based on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay. But the existing student finance system for students from Northern Ireland is heavily weighted towards traditional full-time...More
Higher education is crucially important to our economy and society in Northern Ireland. But in the context of significant public spending constraints, the sustainability of our higher education system has come under serious pressure over the last number of years. This is now having a significant...More
Higher education is crucially important to our economy and society in Northern Ireland. But in the context of significant public spending constraints, the sustainability of our higher education system has come under serious pressure over the last number of years. This is now having a significant...More
The Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency needs your help with planning the 2021 Census in Northern Ireland. As part of this process, we have launched this topic consultation, which is open to everyone. You can give your feedback as an individual or on behalf of an organisation until 17...More
La' Verne Montgomery is the departments Diversity Champion and is part of the NICS Diversity Champions Network (DCN). The DCN are relaunching the diversity and inclusion agenda. They are seeking to develop a brand that would be meaningful for colleagues and help to generate some energy and...More
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive has been amended by EU Directive 2014/52/EU (the 2014 Directive) and those amendments need to be incorporated into national legislation no later than 16 May 2017.
We are inviting comments on the enclosed consultation which sets out proposals...More
Ministerial Foreword
Our adoption legislation in the north of Ireland is almost 30 years old. The key body of children’s legislation is more than 20 years old. In taking forward this Bill, my aim is to modernise the legislation for the benefit of children, their parents and those...More
From Monday 20 February 2017 the following taxis are, on a trial basis, permitted to use the bus lanes on the East and West Belfast Rapid Transit routes and the 12 hour (7am – 7pm) bus lanes in the city centre which link the two routes:
Class A taxis;
Private hire taxis...More
The Economic and Labour Market Statistics (ELMS) Branch, in the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), measures the performance of the Northern Ireland Economy through the production of labour market, business activity and economic activity statistics.
ELMS wish to consult...More
Welcome to the Court Funds Office client survey and thank you for taking the time to share your views on the service we provide. The Court Funds Office greatly values feedback from our clients as it helps us in understanding how we might do things better in the future. We are particularly...More
NISRA continues to participate in the ONS-led Measuring National Wellbeing programme. The way in which we report NI updates to the programme remains under development. The latest update of NI data is presented alongside UK data in a ‘wheel’ format that has been used by ONS in their previous...More
INTRODUCTION
The Department of Health referred to below as “the Department” has undertaken a review of its current continuing healthcare policy in Northern Ireland. At the outset, it is important to note that this consultation is about the suitability of the continuing healthcare policy...More
This is to gather feedback on the Assembly Section Refresher Training ran between 16 and 18 October. There are only a few short questions which should take a few minutes to complete. More
If you are keen to attend please register your details here for the Forensic Science:Fact or Fiction Workshop which will take place on Tuesday 7 November at 10.30am in the Block B, 5th Floor Conference Room, Castle Buildings. Thank you More
DoF Information Management Unit have arranged a half-day seminar on Data Protection Reform to help staff prepare for the introduction of General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Bill.
Hugh Widdis will open the event and we are fortunate to have secured a member of staff from...More
Join us for this year's Government Legal Society Conference.
Title: Change and Challenge
Date: 23 November 2017
Time: 09.30 - 16.30 (with morning tea break, lunch and afternoon tea break)
Location: Long Gallery, Parliament Buildings, Stormont
09:30am: Welcome &...More
Thank you for attending the DoF GDPR Event on 16 th November 2017 in PRONI. We would be grateful for your feedback, to help us shape future awareness sessions. More
DoF Internal Communications want to know your views on a number of key areas such as the Intranet and Staff Brief to inform our work going forward and meet the communication needs of staff throughout the Department.
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This consultation is seeking feedback on the proposed changes to the Northern Ireland Crime Survey.
The Northern Ireland Crime Survey is an annual face-to-face survey commissioned on behalf of the Department of Justice Northern Ireland (DoJ) and is an important source of information about...More
The Northern Trust currently provides domiciliary care services to over 5,000 service users in their own homes. Domiciliary care is the term used to describe a range of social care services put in place to support a service user in their own home. These services are currently delivered by both...More
The nature of children’s services has changed radically in recent years with a sharp decline in the numbers and lengths of stay of children treated as hospital in-patients. More care is now provided in the community, outpatient departments and within rapid access or ambulatory care settings....More