24/04/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Members visited the Camphill Community, located in Glencraig North Down which provides accommodation as well as work and educational programmes to people with learning difficulties. Residents at the Camphill Community have the opportunity to...
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23/09/2011
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Assembly Round Up
The Assembly Committee for Social Development held a special Stakeholder event on September 22 where Members met with a range of Voluntary Sector groups from across Northern Ireland. Among the Groups at the event were Age NI, Save the Children and...
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28/11/2011
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Assembly Round Up
The Assembly’s Social Development Committee was out and about this week when Members combined their weekly Committee meeting with a visit to the new Jobs and Benefits Office in Andersonstown, Belfast. Members met with staff who explained how a new...
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17/11/2011
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Assembly Round Up
Heating or eating - that’s the choice that many local people face every winter. With 44% of households in Northern Ireland in fuel poverty, finding ways to end this problem has become a top priority for the Assembly’s Social Development Committee....
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14/10/2011
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Assembly Round Up
The Assembly’s Social Development Committee was out and about this week when members visited the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Division (CMED) in Belfast City Centre. CMED has undergone a number of changes recently and this visit by the...
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03/10/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Around 180 representatives from the voluntary and community sector came together in the Stormont Hotel on Tuesday 2 October to talk about how the sector could work together to deliver social change. Chairperson of the Assembly’s Social Development...
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07/03/2012
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Assembly Round Up
The Welfare Reform Bill and the effect it will have in Northern Ireland was top of the agenda at a special conference attended by the Assembly’s Committee for Social Development and hosted by NICVA and the Law Centre (NI) on Tuesday 6 March....
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