Debate contribution: Violent Disorder: Support for Children

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 16 June 2025.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 16 June 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Violent Disorder: Support for Children
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5010475

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I acknowledge and welcome the fact that the Minister offered no equivocation or context for the trauma that has been visited on children. In that context and given that his Department has been engaged in a review of the curriculum, will he look at the curriculum to ensure that children in Northern Ireland at both primary and secondary school understand that difference is something to be respected? When we have an issue with people going out on the streets to commit acts of hate, surely the education system needs to take real action to counteract that.

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1411/22-27.

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