Publications

This guidance provides a brief history and background to explain the part played by historic windows, how they are significant, how they can be retained, and, where necessary, how they can be best upgraded to perform and meet our current needs.

Universal Credit has developed a range of Move to Universal Credit stakeholder products to specifically help organisations to support households who are required to move to Universal Credit. 

These products are intended for advisor reference only.

The Northern Ireland Football Fund (TNIFF) is intended to modernise the physical infrastructure used by local clubs to play the game of football at senior and grassroots level in Northern Ireland.

The Department made Regulations to implement the McCloud Remedy on 28 September 2023 and these Regulations are titled the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (SR. 2023 No.

This Bill will allow the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to introduce new administrative liability orders, to replace the outdated court-based liability order process, to substantially speed up the time it takes for the CMS to initiate its strongest enforcement powers against

In Summer 2022 Analytics Division commenced a review of the Housing Statistics publications.  The below document details the outcomes from this review and the changes implemented to the Northern Ireland Housing Report, the Northern Ireland Housing Bulletin and the Norther

This is a proposed policy change in relation to the introduction of a threshold of income or income/ assets of £20k below which charities in Northern Ireland would not be required to register nor report to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. 

Residential building safety measures have been paramount following the Grenfell tragedy. The limitation period for defective buildings in NI is currently six years as set out in the Limitation (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.

The Department for Communities has published the Summary Report relating to the Private Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.

Aims to set a rent level for protected and statutory tenancies that meet the fitness standard. At present this applies to 334 tenancies.

Current cremation legislation in Northern Ireland dates back to 1961 - the Cremation (Belfast) Regulations (NI) 1961 (the 1961 Regulations) - and only applies to crematoria operated by Belfast City Council.

It is intended that the Bill will introduce special time limits for certain action in respect of damage or defects in relation to buildings.