Education Minister Michelle McIlveen has cut the first sod on a major project to provide a new school building for Down High School in Downpatrick.

Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd today met with pupils from the School Council at St John the Baptist Primary School in Portadown.

The Ending Violence Against Women and Girls: Experiences and Attitudes of 16 year olds in Northern Ireland report published by The Executive Office today presents a range of statistics relating to young people’s experiences of a range of violent acts and behaviours. Commentary is also provided on young people’s attitudes on the acceptability of various behaviours.

The Department of Health today published the next in the series of weekly results from its COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS). The findings set out in this report relate to modelled positivity estimates for NI for the week up to the 29 September 2022. The aims of the CIS are to estimate how many people have the infection and the number of new cases that occur over a given time as well as estimating how many people have developed antibodies to COVID-19.

Health Minister Robin Swann has announced the appointment of two new Non-Executive Lay Members and an Interim Chair to the Patient & Client Council (PCC).