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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 qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Education (i) what actions his Department has contributed to the first four interdepartmental homelessness action plans; and (ii) what actions his Department plans to include in the fifth Interdepartmental Homelessness Action Plan.
To ask the Minister of Education what actions his Department is taking to reduce the level of school absence amongst children who are entitled to free school meals.
To ask the Minister of Education what steps are being taken to ensure that (i) deaf children; and (ii) their families receive the support necessary from Teachers of the Deaf in (a) education settings; and (b) early years development.
To ask the Minister of Education (i) how many teachers have completed the mandatory qualification in sensory impairment; (ii) how many of these have completed this in the last five years; and (iii) whether an estimate has been made of how many teachers will complete this qualification in the next five years.
To ask the Minister for Communities what role people with lived experience of homelessness will have in the development of the fifth Interdepartmental Homelessness Action Plan.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he will bring forward legislative proposals in this mandate to reform homelessness legislation to prioritise homelessness prevention.
To ask the Minister of Education what work his Department is undertaking to ensure that children and young people are aware of the signs of (i) child sexual exploitation; and (ii) child criminal exploitation.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department will consider collecting Section 75 disaggregated data from affected children, young people and relevant service providers on (i) the number of children not attending school; and (ii) the reasons for non-attendance.
To ask the Minister of Education what consideration he has given to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s concluding observations on the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published in June 2023.
To ask the Minister of Education (i) whether local integrated teams are to be funded to meet the significant backlog of unmet need within the Special Educational Needs population; and (ii) whether they are to be cost neutral for 2024-25.
I, too, add my thanks to Michelle McIlveen for securing this Adjournment debate today. This is an issue that anybody who has ever represented Newtownards, the Ards peninsula or the wider Strangford constituency will have had raised with them. I also thank the Minister for attending today to respond to the debate. I…
Thank you. Very briefly, does the Member agree that, in December, the UK Government made it very clear during the talks process that re-profiled funding packages were going to be in the mix for the scheme and that all parties, including the SDLP, were party to those discussions?
I beg to move I declare an interest, as my wife is a teacher in Millennium Integrated Primary School, which is one of the schools that has been impacted on by the recent decision taken by the UK Government. Last month, 10 schools in Northern Ireland received the devastating news that funding for their new building…
To ask the Minister of Education when he will commence Section 4 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (NI) Act 2016, which provides for co-operation between the Education Authority and Health and Social Care Trusts to identify, assess and provide services to children with special educational needs and to…
To ask the Minister of Education what work he is undertaking alongside the Minister of Health to identify relevant interfaces between health, social care and education service provision, to ensure that children requiring early intervention can access effective multi-disciplinary teams which can cater for a range of…
To ask the Minister of Education when he will publish updated Revised Regulations and Codes of Practice in relation to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Northern Ireland) 2016.
To ask the Minister of Education what action he is taking to ensure that all elements of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 are commenced as soon as possible.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 7926/22-27, whether he will commission an up to date audit of the cost of division in the education system.
I thank the Minister for his engagement on the issue. Will he provide an update on the plans to redevelop the Whitespots country park, which is in the area in question?
I thank the Minister for her answer. Given the extensive financial and resource pressures on your Department, which you have outlined, do you have any clarity on the precise cost implications of the legacy Act for the criminal justice system?