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The Local Government Circular 23/2023 provides a set of consolidated guidance on councillor allowances.

These Regulations are purely technical in nature and will make a minor amendment to the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005.

These Regulations will allow the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to write off low amounts of child maintenance arrears where it appears that it would be impractical and not cost effective to enforce liability in respect of those arrears.

The Department for Communities Voluntary and Community Division (VCD) has established a formal change programme aimed at improving how the Department ‘incentivises, supports and enhances community empowerment through an innovative and sustainable voluntary and community

This Statutory Rule introduces permanent changes to the legislation regarding the third-party deduction (TPD) scheme process for requesting deductions from benefit for ongoing consumption payments.

Discretionary Support is administered by the Department for Communities (the Department). The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 makes provision for the Department to make payments by way of grant or loan to prescribed persons.

The fact sheet provides a quarterly overview of the performance and composition of the Fund for the three months ending 30 September 2023.

Urgent legislation is required to ensure that certain cohorts of people coming here from Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights or Lebanon as a result of the Hamas attack in Israel on 7 October 2023 or the violence which rapidly escalated in t

Section 34(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 requires that the Department prepare an annual report of its proceedings under that Act and the Charities (Northern Ireland) Order 1987. 

Section 34(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 requires that the Department prepare an annual report of its proceedings under that Act and the Charities (Northern Ireland) Order 1987. 

Section 34(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 requires that the Department prepare an annual report of its proceedings under that Act and the Charities (Northern Ireland) Order 1987. 

Area Profiles Reports for the 15 Neighbourhood Renewal Areas 2022. These Area Profiles provide statistical data which underpins the 2017 Multiple Deprivation Measures for each area. They provide a statistical evidence baseline in terms of the seven domains of deprivation.

Area Profiles Reports for the 6 Neighbourhood Renewal Areas 2022. These Area Profiles provide statistical data which underpins the 2017 Multiple Deprivation Measures for each area. They provide a statistical evidence baseline in terms of the seven domains of deprivation.

Area Profiles Reports for the 15 Neighbourhood Renewal Areas 2022. These Area Profiles provide statistical data which underpins the 2017 Multiple Deprivation Measures for each area. They provide a statistical evidence baseline in terms of the seven domains of deprivation.