Publications

This document sets out guidance on how DfC's Historic Environment Division (HED) develops advice to local councils, heritage consultants, and others on planning applications. It also covers land-use change that may have an impact upon...

This form should be used as a starting point to apply to be recognised as a Registered Housing Association with the Department for Communities.

Use this form to apply to the Lagan River Manager for permission to hold an event on the river Lagan.

These publications present the results of a Department for Communities' module in the April/May 2017 Omnibus Survey and September/October 2017 Omnibus Survey. The main themes explored in the survey are awareness of, and attitudes to...

This screening deals with the Social Supermarkets Pilot Programme

This screening deals with the Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

These examples are provided to help guide Housing Associations in developing their own designs by illustrating a range of aspects of the revised DfC Wheelchair Housing Design Standards.

This screening deals with the Introduction of the Payment Exception Service - replacement for the Simple Payment service

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) JobCentres...

The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per...

This report represents the outcome of work undertaken by the Housing Market Symposium established in January 2017 by the Department for Communities in response to a key indicator contained in Northern Ireland’s draft Programme for...

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.As part of the...

Local Government circular LG 01/2018 on the “Designation of Local Government Auditor”.

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

If you do not have a Certificate when you are ready to settle a claim for compensation, you must apply for one. You should use the Compensation Recovery Scheme Update Template to request a certificate...

This template may be required to be completed in respect of review requests relating to contributory negligence claims under regulations 2 and 3 of the Recovery of Health Services Charges (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006.

A Prospectus for Change: A Strategic Framework to Unlock the Potential of Heritage - Led Tourism in Northern Ireland

Under the Child Maintenance Reform Programme the Northern Ireland Child Maintenance Service introduced a new child maintenance system in December 2012. The Reform Programme also introduced a number of changes to the way child maintenance...

Annual reports on the operation of the Welfare Supplementary Payments, Discretionary Support, Standards of Advice & Assistance and Sanctions.

This screening deals with the Occupational Pensions (Revaluation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2017