All of Mrs Michelle Guy’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 39515/22-27, to detail a statistical breakdown of the number of calls to the Education Authority’s Child Protection Support Service, disaggregated by safeguarding category, for the past five years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any (i) options open to school leaders to complain about maintenance work carried out by Education Authority approved contractors; and (ii) protocols in place to handle those complaints.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any engagement his Department has had with school leaders, regarding improving how maintenance procurement works; and (ii) whether alternative models have been considered, in each of the last two years.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail all funding spent by her Department from the Executive funding for Early Learning and Childcare, in the last two years
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the intended services of the Childcare Business Advisory Service, referenced in the Early Learning and Childcare Strategy.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any policy in relation to the completion of the autism medical questionnaire required for the Education Authority to process alternative transport arrangements for school pupils, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Finance whether he has made representations to the UK Government regarding children born in July and August losing out on Tax Free Childcare support, due school year differences between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Does the Minister accept that adding proposals for transformation of special educational needs support in a budget-saving consultation has undermined the case with families that those are entirely child-centred interventions?
I highlight the increasing pressure on families as childcare costs continue to rise and question whether the draft early learning and childcare strategy is truly up to the challenge. Many families are being hammered by increasing fees. While we welcomed the NI childcare subsidy scheme as an emergency intervention, we…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) when he will publish the findings from the review of Minimum Standards for Childminding and Day Care for Children Under Age 12; and (ii) any reasons for the delay in publishing this.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 40718/22-27, to detail the number of calls received by the Education Authority's Child Protection Support Service, broken down by safeguarding concern, in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) who is represented on the task and finish group for restraint and seclusion; and (ii) the dates of any meetings, since the group was established in July 2025.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he intends to bring forward legislation to establish a compulsory register of all children not in school, including those who have never been registered with a school, similar to the provisions in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill currently progressing through…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the current membership of the working group on Restrictive Practices; and (ii) the number of times the group has met, in the last two years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the number of Education Authority Transition Co-ordinators currently employed; and (ii) the number of vacancies in the team.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) whether a Rural Needs Impact Assessment has been carried out in relation to DFI Eastern Division’s decision to direct elected representatives to use the online portal for enquiries, given concerns that the mapping system does not reliably identify or locate particularly rural…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) the reason why DFI Eastern Division is no longer accepting correspondence from elected representatives and, is instead, directing all enquiries to the online portal, except in cases that are deemed as complicated issues; (ii) any criteria used to determine what…
To ask the Minister of Education, given that the draft Early Learning and Childcare Strategy notes that consideration has been given to capping fees, to detail the level of scoping that was completed by his Department in respect of this.