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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.
Mr Mathison asked the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development to outline the protections that are in place for fallow deer in and around the Clandeboye estate.
To ask the Minister of Education, further to Bangor Central Integrated Primary School being granted planning permission for their new school site on 5 March 2024, how he will ensure the required capital investment is released to deliver the new school building.
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on the Education Training Inspectorate’s commissioned work in to Learning through Play to inform policy advice, as recommended in A Fair Start.
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on his Department’s engagement with the Education Training Inspectorate to commission an evaluation of the Foundation Stage of the Curriculum, as recommended in A Fair Start.
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on refresher training for teachers in the design principles behind the curriculum, as recommended in A Fair Start.
To ask the Minister of Education what measures his Department is taking to ensure that pupils, parents and governors have sufficient opportunities to contribute to the preventative curriculum.
To ask the Minister of Education what measures his Department is taking to ensure that all educational settings include consent as a key aspect of the preventative curriculum.
To ask the Minister of Education why health professionals are currently not included in the establishment of local integrated teams as part of the End to End Review of Special Educational Needs and Disability.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will ensure that contracts for counselling services in post-primary schools are renewed before they expire later this year.
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on his Department’s plans to design, develop and implement new arrangements for Key Stage 1-3 assessment.
To ask the Minister of Education for his assessment of the June 2023 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Committee recommendation that the NI Executive explicitly prohibit the use of restraint and seclusion in educational settings and adopt a child rights-based approach to addressing violence or other…
To ask the Minister of Education (i) for an update on the Education Authority Special Educational Needs Early Years Framework; and (ii) to detail the amount of hours per day special pre-schools will facilitate.
I thank the Member for giving way. Does he agree that one of the ways that the Minister of Education and the Minister for Communities can work together on that is by looking at how data sharing could bring in auto-enrolment for free school meals? Around 20% of parents whose children are eligible for free school meals…
— particularly how it impacts on girls. We receive reports that the uniform that is required for a lot of girls to access PE means that they do not participate or, indeed, leads to their being excluded from PE. A review should factor in that issue.
Alliance is pleased to support the motion. We hope that the House will also accept our amendment, which, as I will set out, will help to further tackle extortionate uniform costs. I am delighted to see the motion being debated. I think that we all know just how many families in our constituencies are suffering as a…
This week is Facial Palsy Awareness Week. Facial palsy is a poorly understood condition, sadly characterised by misdiagnosis and delay in accessing treatment. It has wide-ranging impacts on those living with it, both physical and, at times, profoundly psychological. Facial paralysis is, sadly, often assumed to be only…
Enhancing Tree Protection That this Assembly acknowledges the significance of trees as vital infrastructure that require both care and safeguarding as part of the planning process; recognises the important role that trees play in protecting our environment, responding to climate change and providing broader health,…
To ask the Minister of Health what consideration his Department has given to the creation of a grant that can be provided to families with children requiring overnight hospital care to assist with costs.