Children’s Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2022/23
The Department of Health has today published ‘Children’s Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2022/23’.
Statistics published on engagement of young people in culture, arts, heritage and sport
The Department for Communities (DfC) today released the publication ‘Engagement in culture, arts, heritage and leisure by young people in Northern Ireland’.
Department of Education publishes Every CHILD, its Corporate Plan for 2023-2028
The Department of Education has published Every CHILD, its Corporate Plan for 2023-28 which puts children and young people at the centre of its strategic priorities.
Launch of competition to appoint a Chair to Invest NI
The Department for the Economy has launched a public appointment competition to appoint a substantive Chair to the Board of Invest NI.
Green Party response to National Infrastructure Commission report
18 October 2023
Responding to the National Infrastructure Commission’s report advising that the UK’s public transport, home heating and water networks are all in need of renewal [1], Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer said:
“There is much to welcome in this report and it chimes closely with Green Party policy in many areas. We agree people on lower incomes should have heat pumps installed; that hydrogen has no place in home heating and on the need to block more incineration in favour of massively ramping up recycling rates.
“There are also areas where we would go further. We agree on the urgency of cleaning up our toxic rivers and waterways and modernising water infrastructure, but rather than this being carried out by private water companies – who continue to leak millions in dividends to shareholders – this much needed investment should be carried out by a publicly owned water industry.
“But overall, this report is extremely timely. The Conservatives have been peddling a false narrative about how greening our society will increase costs for households. However, the National Infrastructure Commission shows clearly that boosting investment to transition our economy will result in lower not higher household energy bills.”
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