How to claim
You can submit a claim to New Style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) online by following the link below. Entitlement to New Style ESA is dependent on your National Insurance record. For more information on the entitlement conditions, please visit NI Direct .
You can ask a friend or relative or an organisation that you know and trust to help you. Alternatively you can contact ESA for help on 0800 085 6318.
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We would welcome your views on your experience of the AccessNI webinar you attended this week.
There are only 13 questions and the survey should take no longer than 2 minutes to complete.
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This survey seeks to assess Resource and Performance Commitee effectiveness and answer the question: What are we as a Committee now doing well and what can we do better?
Your responses will be used to stimulate reflection, discussion and learning.
The survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Thank you for participating and sharing your views.
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This survey seeks to assess Asset Management and Maintenance Commitee effectiveness and answer the question: What are we as a Committee now doing well and what can we do better?
Your responses will be used to stimulate reflection, discussion and learning.
The survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Thank you for participating and sharing your views.
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This survey seeks to assess Tenant and Customer Services Commitee effectiveness and answer the question: W hat are we as a Committee now doing well and what can we do better ?
Your responses will be used to stimulate reflection , discussion and learning.
The survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Thank you for participating and sharing your views.
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Your contribution would be greatly appreciated in shaping the plenary sessions during the Senior Leadership Forum. Please can you identify your top 4 specific challenges and barriers to the delivery of our services (outside of budget and recruitment) by completing the short survey below.
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The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland's arts development agency; supporting the arts and creative sector through grant distribution, strategic interventions and research and evaluation.
This survey is targeted at arts organsiations and creative businesses, to examine skills within the Northern Ireland workforce.
Privacy Note
All of the information you provide will be treated confidentially and in accordance will GDPR...More
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland's arts development agency; supporting the arts and creative sector through grant distribution, strategic programmes and research and evaluation.
If you are an individual artist or employees within arts organsiations and creative businesses we would love to hear from you.
This survey can be completed in around 15 minutes depending on how much information you wish to share.
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The session will be lead by Dervla Kearney, Director of Consumer Empowerment, Consumer Council
To register your interest in attending please complete this short registration form. Following registration we will issue an email containing the WebEx link to the session. In the event that the session is oversubscribed we will update you.
Please note that the closing date for registration is Friday 21st April 2023 .
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Respondents are asked to fill in the following questionnaire in order to develop an understanding of how Business Cases (BCs) and post project evaluations (PPEs) are carried out within each Division/Partner Organisation.
Responses should be completed by Grade 7 or above. To manage responses those completing this questionnaire should include their name and branch. It is important to note that this is in relation to BCs and PPEs that fall within each Division/Partner Organisation...More
The Policing Board is interested in finding out about your experience of working with the PSNI in your community. We would be grateful if you could complete this short survey on your engagement with PSNI and neighbourhood policing. This will help us inform the Policing Plan , in particular, to deliver Measure 3.1.3 to assess and evaluate the impact of partnership working with local communities.
Your responses will remain anonymous, unless you agree at a later date that you are...More
Sport NI Declaration of Interest Policy was approved by the Board on 11 th March 2020. The revised policy has been updated to simplify the annual declarations made by staff and board members.
This online form is to be completed by all staff and Board Members by 21st April 2023.
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The Circular Economy Branch is doing some research to gauge what DfE staff's understanding of the circular economy is. The team would greatly appreciate it if you would take 1 minute to respond to this survey.
This will provide us with a much needed baseline of your understanding that can be compared to at a later stage.
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Consultation
The attached questionnaire seeks your views on the Department for the Economy Draft Equality Scheme, Draft Audit of Inequalities and Action Plan 2022-2027, and Draft Disability Action Plan 2022-2027.
Responses must be received no later than 4 June 2023
Equality Scheme and Equality Duties
Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 requires public authorities, in carrying out their functions, to have due regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity...More
Dear owner, we would like to know a little more about the issues that you are facing as you manage, maintain and develop the listed building at this address. This will help us to understand the overall issues that listed building owners face and help us develop and refine the support we offer.
You should note that any individual responses will not be published and a summary report will only reflect the opinions received in general terms. If you want to know how your information...More
The Executive Office publish the Northern Ireland Racial Equality Indicators report. We are interested in understanding more about the quality of the publication and how it is used. This is important, as it will help us to provide a high quality service which meets users' needs,
Your views are extremely import to us and we thank you in advance for taking part in this feedback survey.
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The Executive Office publish the Public Appointments Report for Northern Ireland: 2019/20; 2020/21; 2021/22. We are interested in understanding more about the quality of the publication and how it is used. This is important, as it will help us to provide a high quality service which meets users' needs,
Your views are extremely import to us and we thank you in advance for taking part in this feedback survey.
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Children and young people's questionnaire – Race Relations Order
This survey is about The Race Relations Order, which is the legislation - or rules - to help stop racism.
The Order was written in 1997 so it is very out of date. We want to change it so it gives better protection to anyone who feels they have been bullied or treated unfairly, because
of the colour of their skin
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Background – Where we are now
The current Race Relations Order was brought into force in 1997 and subsequently amended in 2003 and 2009 by amendment regulations.
The Order outlaws discrimination on racial grounds. Racial grounds include colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origins.
The law covers racial discrimination in the following key areas:
Changes affecting multiple provisions
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The Department for Communities is currently developing a new provision, called In-Work Support or IWS, to support disabled people in Northern Ireland to retain and progress in employment. This single provision will replace two current programmes, Access to Work (NI) and Workable NI.
A key component of In-Work Support is the Co-Design approach. We are planning to hold Co-Design Workshops during the next few months, one of which is aimed at employers. The purpose of this...More
The Department for Communities is consulting on a Scheme of Delegation for the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.
The High Court Judgment of May 2019 in McKee & Hughes (and others) v The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, subsequently confirmed by the Court of Appeal in February 2020 found that the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland (the Commission) did not have the power to delegate its functions to staff. This rendered almost 7,500 regulatory decisions taken...More
A Covid Counterfactual: What if Government had not provided support?
Gareth Hetherington MBE, Director of UUEPC; and Dr. Eoin Magennis, Senior Economist at UUEPC
At the session UUEPC Director Gareth Hetherington MBE and Senior Economist Dr Eoin Magennis will present the findings of UUEPC’s recent Covid Counterfactual Research which considers a range of potential impacts that the Covid-19 pandemic
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Web Accessibility: Everyone's important!
The session will be lead by Michael Loughridge
To register your interest in attending please complete this short registration form. Following registration we will issue an email containing the WebEx link to the session. In the event that the session is oversubscribed we will update you.
Please note that the closing date for registration is Tuesday 28th March 2023 .
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The Information and Communications Unit in the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (the Office) produces five Official Statistics publications annually, together with quarterly Official Statistics bulletins.
We would like to better understand how the statistics are being used and whether there are any improvements we can implement to better meet user need. We would appreciate if you would complete this short survey to assist us in making these publications...More
The Universal Credit Take the Time Wellbeing survey is to help us support you. You can help us by taking time out to complete this survey, to help us consider what we can do to maintain and improve your wellbeing.
Your participation is greatly appreciated.
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