Schools no longer required to undertake contact tracing

Education settings will no longer be asked to carry out contact tracing of pupils following an agreement between the departments of Education and Health.




Case Processing Time for Criminal Cases dealt with at Courts in Northern Ireland 2020/21 published today

The Department of Justice (DoJ) today published a Research and Statistical Bulletin on ‘Case Processing Time for Criminal Cases dealt with at Courts in Northern Ireland 2020/21’. It is an Official Statistics Publication.




Publication of the statistical bulletin Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2019-20

The Department of Health has today published the Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2019/20 Statistical Bulletin.




Campus vaccination drive is announced

Health Minister Robin Swann has announced details of a major push to vaccinate more students in Northern Ireland.




Students urged to check entitlements through Department’s ‘Make the Call’ service

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has urged students to check if they could be entitled to benefits by using the Department for Communities’ Make the Call Wraparound service.