Publications

Local Councils prompt payments report for quarter ending December 2016

The Benefits Statistics Summary is released quarterly in the last week of February, May, August and November.

Full agenda for the Sports Safety Conference - 24 March 2017

A list of the funding awarded to Community Hall organisations.

Ministerial Advisory Group for Architecture and the Built Environment response to the Consultation - Local Development Plan 2030 Preferred Options Paper.

This publication presents the results of a Department for Communities' module in the April/May 2016 Omnibus Survey and September/October 2016 Omnibus Survey.

Ministerial Advisory Group for Architecture and the Built Environment's position paper on the value of our Built Heritage.

The Department has prepared guidelines to assist district councils with the implementation of the statutory licensing scheme contained in the Licensing of Pavement Cafés Act (NI) 2014.

Statistics on use of the public library service in Northern Ireland: findings from the 2015/16 Continuous Household Survey. Please note: the publication below has been updated from that released at 9.30 to correct an error on Page 6.  Details are provided on Page 2.

Statistics on attendance at museums and science centres in Northern Ireland: findings from the 2015/16 Continuous Household Survey.

This Statistical Fact Sheet, which is published three times a year (along with a more detailed annual bulletin), presents key information on job vacancies which have been notified to the Department for Communities (DfC) JobCentre/Jobs and Benefits offices (J&Bos)

List of successful applications to community equipment small grant programme 

This is the nineteenth report of the Historic Buildings Council for Northern Ireland.

Advice to Communities Minister Paul Givan from Departmental Permanent Secretary

A composite evaluation framework has been developed to measure the impact of the implementation of Welfare Reform in NI.  Underpinning this are project specific evaluation strategies that have been developed in order to measure the impact of each project.  The impact

The Department commissioned Public And Corporate Economic Consultants (PACEC) to draw together evidence to research the need and demand for Government intervention in the conversion of town and city centre vacant or underused commercial premises into new dwellings.

This paper sets out the policy position of the Department for Communities, the Department of Health and the Department of Justice on the approach to strategic needs assessment within the Supporting People programme.  Its primary readership are the statutory partners invol

A significant amount of research is published outside of the Department on issues which may be of interest to policy makers, and this widely-dispersed information can be time consuming to collate.

As part of the wider regeneration plans for Portrush and to help the Department for Communities establish the need for a hotel in the town, the Department commissioned a hotel scoping study in 2015.

The Order replaced the Shops Act (NI) 1946 on 4 December 1997.  It brought the Northern Ireland shops law broadly into line with the corresponding law in England and Wales, the Sunday Trading Act 1994.