Publications

This guidance is for all healthcare professionals who complete medical (factual) reports for the Department for Communities (DfC) or their Assessment Providers.  It gives advice on how patients can be supported through the sharing of information.

This comprehensive publication provides teacher with a lot of detail about Dundrum Castle and includes a guided tour. It can be used at KS3 – The Impact of the Norman’s on the Medieval World.

The Department has been running a Social Supermarket (SSM) Pilot Programme since October 2017.

This booklet provides information on the changes to housing support under the proposed Welfare Reform Bill and the potential impact on the population of Northern Ireland. It draws together analysis undertaken by Analytical Services Unit and other parts of the Department,

This document is an addendum to previous analysis produced by the Department which outlined the Northern Ireland specific impacts of Summer Budget 2015 for benefit claimants (including Tax Credit claimants). 
 

The Communities Minister is making almost £35million of funding available to support the culture, language, arts and heritage sectors which have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

This document outlines the scale of the challenge of climate change, the actions the Department will take to reduce its impact across its diverse responsibility.

Introduction of the new State Pension will abolish the additional pension for those reaching pensionable age after the start date on 6th April 2016.

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

Global wholesale energy costs, particularly gas and oil, have increased at unprecedented rates. This has resulted in significant increases in gas, home heating oil and electricity bills for households in NI.

The Social Sector Size Criteria reports below detail the number of Welfare Supplementary Payments that stopped when customers moved properties and continued to under-occupy by at least the same number of bedrooms.

Money Laundering can impact on certain areas of governmental business. As a result, the Department has chosen to adhere to the principles behind the money laundering legislation through the development of a departmental Money Laundering Policy.

Publications include results of Social Security Agency (SSA) questions which have featured in the Northern Ireland Omnibus household survey since September 2012.

Publications include results of Social Security Agency (SSA) questions which have featured in the Northern Ireland Omnibus household survey since September 2012.

The masterplan has been commissioned by the Department in collaboration with Coleraine Borough Council, and sets out a 15 year shared vision for Coleraine town centre.

This study was commissioned in January 2012 by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE), on behalf of the Department.

Publications include results of the Department's questions which have featured in the Northern Ireland Omnibus household survey since September 2012.

This report details the findings of a scoping review of the literature on poverty in Northern Ireland, undertaken as part of the Department’s Economic and Social Research Programme 2021/22.