Publications

The Child Maintenance Annexes provide information relating to client contact, court proceedings, notifications and understanding employed and self-employed earners.

The Child Maintenance Evidence and Decision Making volume provides information relating to evidence to use for decision making, income, variations, other factors affecting the calculation and collection and enforcement.

The Child Maintenance Northern Ireland Rules volume looks at legal enforcement, liability orders, order appointing receivers and garnishee orders, order charging land, order for delivery of possession of land, seizure order and sanctions.

The Child Maintenance Information Gathering volume looks at applications, information gathering, last known or notified address, using a credit reference agency, disclosure and verification of death.

The Child Maintenance Calculations volume looks at the maintenance calculation and different elements of the calculation such as historic, employed or self-employed income and Universal Credit.

This guidance is for Department for Communities decision makers on child maintenance.

The Child Maintenance Variations volume provides a variations overview and information on variations to the maintenance calculation in relation to contact costs, illness or disability of a relevant other child, prior debts, boarding school fees, certain payments, unearned inco

The Basic Principals volume looks at the duty to maintain, welfare of the child, meaning of certain terms, service types, methods of payment, charging fees, relevant other child, child of the family or child abroad, other children supported under a family based arrangement, sh

The Child Maintenance Collection and Enforcement volume looks at unlikely to pay, direct non-scheme payments, payment allocation, arrears collection, write off, debt steer, enforcement and collection of 1993/2003 schemes debt, deduction from earnings orders/requests, deduction

The Child Maintenance Review and Appeals volume looks at revisions, supersessions, income reviews, parentage disputes, correction of decisions, mandatory reconsiderations and appeals.

MAG is here to support communities, developers, local authorities and government to create high quality buildings and places that promote well-being, sustainable futures and the economy in Northern Ireland. The How MAG can Help guide provides an overview of this support.

“Our Lockdown World” survey was conducted from 31 March 2021 to 2 June 2021 as a follow-up to MAG’s ‘Our Changing World’ survey, which ran from 13 May 2020 to 1 June 2020.

Annual Reports for the 15 Neighbourhood Renewal Areas in Belfast documenting the progress made against Neighbourhood Renewal objectives in 2019/20.

Annual Reports for the 6 Neighbourhood Renewal Areas in the North West documenting the progress made against Neighbourhood Renewal objectives in 2019/20.

Annual Reports for the 13 Neighbourhood Renewal Areas in areas outside Belfast and the North West documenting the progress made against Neighbourhood Renewal objectives in 2019/20.

A summary of the findings from the consultation on ‘A New Sport and Physical Activity Strategy’.

The House Sales Scheme for Tenants of Registered Housing Associations is due to end from midnight on 27 August 2022.

From 28 August 2022, the scheme will be closed to applications and Housing Association tenants will no longer be able to buy their home.

Evidence collated by the Department for Communities indicates that an increase in affordable homes for rent is required within the Northern Ireland Housing market.

On 14 October 2021, Minister Hargey announced the publication of the Department for Communities Climate Change Action Plan 2020-21.