All of Mr Nick Mathison’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 Health to detail any action he is taking to ensure data relating to adults with special educational needs is collected consistently across all Health and Social Care Trusts.
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on work within his Department to establish a regional policy and specification for the future supply of wigs.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any work (a) being undertaken; or (b) planned to be undertaken, this year within the Design and Trial an Inclusive Capacity Building Programme, Special Educational Needs Transformation proposal; and (ii) the project deliverables.
To ask the Minister of Health whether the further withdrawal of nursing provision from special schools will be halted, as further work continues on a comprehensive multi-agency study, following the publication of the Review of Population Health Needs of Children with Complex Medical Needs Attending Special Schools in…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any work (a) being undertaken; or (b) planned to be undertaken, this year under the heading Trial and implementation of a Speech, Language & Communication Programme including the introduction of Toolkits, within the SEN Reform Agenda and Delivery Plan 2025-2030; and (ii)…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any work (a) being undertaken; or (b) planned to be undertaken, this year under the heading Trial and Implementation of Special Schools as Resource Hubs/Centres of Expertise to support inclusion, within the SEN Reform Agenda and Delivery Plan 2025-2030; and (ii) what will…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any work (a) being undertaken; or (b) planned to be undertaken, this year under the heading Trial and implementation of an Inclusive Play Programme approach, within the SEN Reform Agenda and Delivery Plan 2025-2030; and (ii) what will be delivered by this project.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any work (a) being undertaken; or (b) planned to be undertaken, this year under the heading Design and implementation of a Professional Learning Programme for teaching staff, within the SEN Reform Agenda and Delivery Plan 2025-2030; and (ii) what will be delivered by this…
Over a year ago, I was contacted by a group of concerned special school principals regarding removals that had taken place and planned removals of nursing provision in their schools. That progressive chipping away of an essential service is happening at a time when we are hearing, more and more, about the increasing…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the current roles within each of the Education Authority's local IMPACT teams, including a breakdown of (i) each specific job role; (ii) the number of each role within a team; and (iii) current vacancies for these roles.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the number of established specialist provisions in mainstream schools; and (ii) the number of these provisions that have all places filled.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any work (a) being undertaken; or (b) planned to be undertaken, this year under the heading Resetting the statutory assessment and annual review process and support model, within the SEN Reform Agenda and Delivery Plan 2025-2030; and (ii) what will be delivered by this…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any work (a) being undertaken; or (b) planned to be undertaken, this year under the heading Establish and deliver pilot early childhood intervention programmes in the SEN Reform Agenda and Delivery Plan 2025-2030; and (ii) what will be delivered by this project.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any work (a) being undertaken; or (b) planned to be undertaken, this year under the heading Transforming the support model for children with a statement of Special Educational Needs, within the SEN Reform Agenda and Delivery Plan 2025-2030; and (ii) what will be delivered…
I thank the Minister for giving way. Throughout the process, you have been very willing to take interventions as we have debated the draft legislation. Given that it was clear that Members had concerns that they were in the dark about what the guidelines would be, would it not have been helpful to bring us some sort…
I thank the Minister for giving way. I hope that I have been clear that I really want the legislation to be effective. I will be the first to pay tribute to you if it is, but you are making big statements that it will be effective. We will know whether it is effective only when we know what the guidelines do, because…
I thank the Member for giving way. Lots of Members have referred to the evidence that the Committee heard from young people. Do you agree that it potentially sets a dangerous precedent if Committees listen to young people and tick the box to say that they have done so, but then produce legislation that seems to pay no…
I thank the Minister for that update. Can she provide a further update on the progress in increasing the fees that are payable under the County Court scale?
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I may be able to get through my contribution before 2.00 pm regardless. I thank the Minister for his intervention. Yes, I was concerned about the timescales but simply because, as I highlight now, if the guidelines arrive in the next two or three weeks — we are being told that November is the…
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Affordability is at the heart of the very idea of school uniform and of the Bill, but, in the Committee's view, uniform should also be seen to change with the times, so the Committee prioritised listening to the views of the people who wear school uniform: young people. Young people were very…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to provide an update on his Department's work to establish a regional policy and specification for the future supply of wigs being undertaken alongside the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) to detail any engagement undertaken with the Procurement and Logistics…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the number of schools that have been approached regarding the creation of a Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools (SPiMs) for 2026-2027; and (ii) the number of schools that have agreed to taking on a new SPiMs for 2026-2027; and (iii) the number of these SPiMs…