Education
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Education: transformation and financial constraint
David Whelan speaks to Permanent Secretary for the Department of Education Derek Baker about the widely recognised financial pressures within…
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Children and Young People’s Strategy sitting in limbo
The Department of Education’s (DE) Children and Young People’s Strategy 2017-2027 appears to be a partial victim of the political…
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Social media and screen use
The UK Government has recently published a White Paper on Online Harms. The paper seeks to address some of…
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Without delay: The need for a new child friendly justice model for child victims of sexual violence
The need to ensure our justice system better supports child victims of sexual violence came into sharp focus at a…
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Curriculum Sports Programme a victim of squeezed education budget
The Department of Education (DE) ended funding for the Curriculum Sports Programme, which provided primary schools with coaches from the…
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Save the Children launch Building Blocks programme supporting the foundations for early childhood
Across Northern Ireland too many families struggle to pay the bills and put food on the table. Simple items like…
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Integration: A future direction
David Whelan visited Brownlow Integrated College in Craigavon, the first school to transform to integrated status in Northern Ireland, to…
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Supporting agencies to tackle childhood adversity across Northern Ireland
The Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) is working with its 27 member agencies to build a trauma informed workforce…
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Childcare provision in Northern Ireland and beyond
With just 12.5 hours per week of funded childcare per week, Northern Ireland is falling behind its UK counterparts and…
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Record number of children in care in Northern Ireland
Over 3,000 children were recorded as living in care in Northern Ireland in 2018 by the Department of Health. The…
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