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Mr Nick Mathison: Assembly records
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 Education (i) for his assessment of the effectiveness of the new Family Support Link Officer role in the Education Authority; and (ii) whether families who were assigned a Family Support Link Officer will be given the opportunity to provide feedback on this engagement.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of children with special educational needs and disabilities who have a special transport need that are currently awaiting confirmation of their transport assistance.
To ask the Minister of Education whether nursery schools and preschool settings have access to support from the Education Authority Children Looked After team.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any additional financial support available to preschool and nursery settings which have children looked after on their enrolment.
Alliance has long highlighted the need for a fairer funding settlement for Northern Ireland, and we have been clear that the fiscal floor needs to be set at a level higher than 124% if we are to address the level of need, particularly in justice and policing, as we debated yesterday, and to address the years of…
I thank the Minister for his statement. I join my colleagues in confirming my opposition to the policy change. Will the Minister consider releasing any resources or additional support to the independent advice sector, which already stands in the gap and provides a lot of assistance to people experiencing severe…
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on when he will commence Section 4 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (Northern Ireland) Act 2016 in order to undertake a review into how the Education Authority and the Health and Social Care authorities have co-operated in their duties in relation to the…
I thank the First Minister and the deputy First Minister for bringing the draft Programme for Government to the Assembly. I welcome the commitment to supporting children with special educational needs in the draft PFG. With that in mind, how will you ensure that the vital collaboration that is needed between…
I thank the Member for bringing this Matter of the Day to the Floor. It is absolutely appropriate that we should start our business today by paying tribute to our athletes and their achievements in the Olympics and Paralympics. Members have already listed how successful our athletes from across Northern Ireland were…
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will implement the recommendation in the departmentally commissioned report from Ulster University, Free School Meal Entitlement as an Indicator of Socioeconomic Deprivation in NI: Advantages, Disadvantages and Alternatives, to use Free School Entitlement over a three to six…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the current estimated spend required to deliver the pre-school standardisation programme; and (ii) the budget that has been provided to the programme for the 2024-25 financial year.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will create a process that allows for re-profiling of available funding across all 38 Sure Start projects, as opposed to within each individual project, as recommended in the Review of Department of Education Targeted Early Years Interventions.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will provide flexible funding for each Sure Start of 5 per cent on top of the existing budget on a case-by-case basis, as recommended in the Review of Department of Education Targeted Early Years Interventions.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will commit to retaining the expanded 153 Sure Start areas, in line with recommendations in the Review of Department of Education Targeted Early Years Interventions.
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on the publication of the final report from the Transitions Planning workstream as part of the End to End Review of Special Educational Needs.
To ask the Minister of Education whether the Education Authority maintains a record of how many statements are shared with future education providers when a child leaves school.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the engagement his Department has undertaken with school leaders in relation to schools assuming responsibility for the preparation of a child’s first transition plan under the new Special Educational Needs Framework.
To ask the Minister of Education when he will confirm his response to the consultation on the Reduction and Management of Restrictive Practices in Educational Settings.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) how his Department identified the need for a pilot project to support schools with restricting access to mobile phones; and (ii) whether a Business Case demonstrating value for money was submitted and approved for the pilot project.
Budgetary Pressures That this Assembly expresses its grave concern at the significant budgetary pressures facing the Executive; recognises the severe impact of these pressures on the delivery of, and investment in, public services, including policing and justice, health and social care, education, housing,…