The NI Executive has agreed a draft Programme for Government 2024-2027 ‘Our Plan: Doing What Matters Most’. It outlines the Executive’s priorities for making a real difference to the lives of people here. This is an important document which will set the direction for Government and consists of nine immediate priorities which they will work […]
The Committee for Education is carrying out a Mini-Inquiry into Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) in schools. The Committee is comparing the approaches to RSE across these islands and internationally to assess provision of RSE in Northern Ireland and to reach conclusions on the need for reform and make recommendations from this. The deadline for […]
Siobhán continues to attend meetings of the Cliff Edge Coalition Working Group which is working to strengthen the existing mitigations package for Northern Ireland. Cliff Edge are increasingly concerned about the upcoming cliff edge for the Benefit Cap. The Benefit Cap is a policy that limits the total amount of social security support that working-age […]
Are you concerned about the impact of climate change, and the mainstream response to it, on women? We have the group for you! Over 3 sessions we will look at the climate crisis as a type of gender-based violence, we will chat about the reproductive rights response to climate change, and the power of individual […]
Campaigns: Guarantee our Essentials Siobhán is part of a campaign from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell Trust calling for an Essentials Guarantee within Universal Credit. The Essentials Guarantee would embed in the social security system a principle that at a minimum Universal Credit should protect people from going without essentials. The Campaign is […]
The purpose of this consultation is to seek views on whether eligibility for the Healthy Start scheme should be extended to include others who are prevented from accessing public funds due to immigration controls. The Department of Health and Social Care is particularly interested in views from: those with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) […]
The Department for the Economy are consulting on proposals to strengthen employment rights legislation and increase the number of working age people in ‘Good Jobs’. The consultation covers a wide range of possible improvements to employment legislation aimed at modernising employment rights. The consultation is seeking views on the terms of employment, pay and benefits, […]
The Department for the Economy are consulting about the introduction of regulations to entitle employees who are the victims of domestic abuse up to 10 days paid safe leave in each leave year so that they can deal with issues related to that abuse. The Domestic Abuse (Safe Leave) Act (NI) 2022 is an important […]
The Department of Education are consulting on plans to introduce statutory guidance so that all school governing bodies will be required to review their school uniform policy and ensure that costs are manageable for parents/carers. The consultation is seeking views on their approach and what should be contained within any statutory guidance particularly around the […]
Work has started on the write up of the Consortium’s next research paper on Women, Skills and Barriers to Work. This follows a series of focus groups with women to discuss the issues around skills and the barriers they faced taking part in training and getting back to work. Unfortunately the writing work on the […]
