THE SDLP’s Derry Assembly representative Mark H Durkan has welcomed £12.6m funding to provide payments to families of children who…
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Summer time school meals grants announced for North
The families of children who receive free school meals will get additional financial support for the summer break. Stormont Education…
Free school meals to be funded until 2022
THE Department of Education (DE) will pay for free school meals for eligible children during all school holidays until April…
Coronavirus: Health Service in North to receive £560m in extra funds
THE health service across the North of Ireland is getting an extra £560 million in a budget allocation exercise. Executive…
Coronavirus: Executive to fund free school meals over half term
ARLENE Foster has confirmed the Stolrmont Executive will support free school meals over the October mid-term break. The First Minister…
Durkan welcomes continued Free School Meals provision
SDLP Social Justice Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has welcomed confirmation that children eligible for Free School Meals will not be…
Concern over delay in free school meals services – Mullan
SINN Féin’s Education spokesperson Karen Mullan has expressed concern that full school meal services have not yet resumed in all…
Coronavirus: Executive reallocates COVID-19 funding
THE Stormont Executive has agreed how to reallocate £123 million of Coronavirus funding. It is not new money, but comes…
Coronavirus: Stormont finds cash to fund school meals over summer
A £12 million free school meals scheme for the summer holidays will go ahead after the money was found from…
Durkan: Post Office account holders unfairly excluded from free school meal payments
SDLP Social Justice Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has criticised a lack of expediency around access to free school meal payments…