Publications

These financial statements relate to the Charitable Donations & Bequests Accounts detailing receipts and payments for the financial year 2019.

The Steps 2 Success (S2S) Statistical Bulletin provides key statistical information for the Steps 2 Success programme. Data has been provided on the number of clients referred to and participating in S2S, key personal characteristics...

This Statistical Fact Sheet, which is published three times a year (along with a more detailed annual bulletin), presents key information on employment vacancies which have been notified to the Department for Communities (DfC).

Uniting Opportunities forms part of the wider Uniting Communitiesprogramme and seeks to deliver good relations and reconciliation projects through sport, physical and creative activity.

This annual report on the operation of the Social Fund, was laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly in accordance with section 146(5) and (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.The Social Fund...

The aim of this policy change is to support economic recovery by ensuring self-employed claimants have the support they need to restart their businesses. It will therefore provide for the reintroduction of Gainful Self-Employment (GSE)...

Regulation 2 amends the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 91) (“the Social Fund Regulations”)Regulation 3 amends regulations 1 and 2 of the Social Security (Application of Reciprocal Agreements...

Under the 1950 Employment and Training Act, the Department for Communities (DfC) has a statutory obligation to assist employers to obtain suitable employees. As part of DfC’s role in meeting this obligation it is imperative...

Statistics in relation to wellbeing and engagement in culture, heritage and sport: findings from the 2019/20 Continuous Household Survey.

These Regulations will amend the Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 to correct anomalies with regard to Child Benefit end dates. This will allow child maintenance end dates to align with Child Benefit...

The Scheme of Emergency Financial Assistance (SEFA) is designed to aid individual householders who have suffered severe inconvenience as a result of internal flooding to their properties. Householders who are deemed eligible under the criteria...

Article 29 (1) of the Local Government (NI) Order 2005 confers powers on district councils in relation to emergencies. Article 29 (10) of the Order gives the Department the power to make grants to district...

The DfC Disability Action Plan sets out how the Department proposes to fulfil the duties under Section 49A of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 in relation to its functions, for the period 2020-2024.

DfC Local Government and Housing Regulation Division has now prepared an updated Accounts Direction for the appropriate form and content of accounts for Northern Ireland District Councils.

Summary evaluation report based on evaluations submitted by councils regarding Community Festivals Fund outcomes.

This document provides further information on the Historic Environment Record of Northern Ireland (HERoNI). It contains an overview of the extensive collections held in HERoNI and describes the history, purpose and uses of the Record.

This quarterly publication provides an overview on the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland. This publication contains information up to the quarter ending March 2021.

The Department’s Equality Scheme includes a commitment to the development of an Equality Action Plan (EAP) which relates to the Department’s specific functions and aims to promote equality of opportunity and good relations by taking...

Help towards some of the extra costs you might have because of a long-term health condition or disability.

The Historic Environment Fund 2021-22 aim is to ‘help communities to enjoy and realise the value of the historic environment’. The funding initiative seeks to generate third party action to conserve heritage.Funding will be limited...