Publications

Historic Environment Division (HED) has a statutory role in development planning.

The Department for Communities (DfC) and the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations (NIFHA) have collaboratively produced and published this thinkpiece.

Following on from the consultation on Defined Benefit pension schemes: security and sustainability, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has published the White Paper Protecting Defined Benefit pension schemes.

The core purpose of the Office of the Social Fund Commissioner (OSFC) is to deliver independent reviews of discretionary Social Fund decisions made in the Social Security Agency.

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has published the Automatic Enrolment Review report Automatic Enrolment Review 2017: Maintaining the Momentum (see below).

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.

This good practice guide aims to assist district councils achieve a consistent approach when considering serving an Urgent Works Notice on a listed building (or building in a Conservation Area(CA) where the Department of Infrastructure (DfI)  has issued a direction).

This good practice guide aims to assist councils achieve a consistent approach when identifying and protecting Historic Buildings of Local Importance.  

This good practice guide aims to assist councils achieve a consistent approach when considering serving a Building Preservation Notice on an unlisted building.

This Regulatory Impact Assessment sets out the policy objectives of the review of the automatic enrolment earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band for the 2017/18 year and the impact on, for example, individuals, employers and the pensions industry.

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

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.

The outturn results for the 2015/16 Public Library Standards which form part of the Department's Delivering Tomorrow’s Libraries policy.

The core purpose of the Office of the Social Fund Commissioner (OSFC) is to deliver independent reviews of discretionary Social Fund decisions made in the Social Security Agency.

This document sets out the policy of the Department for Communities in relation to enforcement action taken when a suspected benefit fraud is brought to its attention.  This includes the imposition of penalties and, where appropriate, referral to the Public Prosecution Se

The revisions policy utilised by the Department in the production of official statistics.

The Executive’s Child Poverty Strategy, published in March 2016, sets out the vision to eradicate child poverty in the future.

The outturn results for the 2014/15 Public Library Standards which form part of the Department's Delivering Tomorrow’s Libraries policy.

The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure published a revised policy and guidance framework for the Community Festivals Fund.