Insight and latest updates from our team
Featured Member - Start360
By NICVA 29 Jul 2015 Shauna O'Neill
Start360 puts YOU - their clients and stakeholders - at the centre of everything they do. They are Northern Ireland’s leading provider of support services to young people, adult offenders and their families.
Does automatic enrolment apply to you?
By NICVA 29 Jul 2015 Una McKernan
All employers will need to work out if automatic enrolment (AE) applies to them. If you have at least one member of staff who is paid via a PAYE scheme, AE duties apply.
The inevitable equality - why NI will embrace same-sex marriage
By ScopeNI 29 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
A key figure in the successful marriage equality campaign in the Republic of Ireland says Northern Ireland will move into line with the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Spooky action at an unknown distance - GCHQ and Amnesty International
By ScopeNI 27 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
The security services exist to protect us as citizens and allow us to live in freedom. Scope speaks with spying victims Amnesty International about whether spying on human rights organisations can fulfil that purpose.
A complex solution to a simple problem
By ScopeNI 24 Jul 2015 Nick Garbutt
Analysis: Colin Harper of the Belfast Law Centre on the Mental Capacity Bill
The other Villiers in Ireland: famine, internment, rebellion
By ScopeNI 21 Jul 2015 Nick Garbutt
Theresa Villiers is not the first of her family to hold high office in Ireland.
Generating our Success: The Northern Ireland Strategy for Youth Training
By NICVA 20 Jul 2015 Jenny McEneaney
In June, Minister Farry published a strategy for youth training.
Innovation Lab: A Review of Business Rates
By NICVA 20 Jul 2015 Jenny McEneaney
NICVA was invited by the Public Sector Reform Division in DFP to participate in an innovation lab on a fundamental review of business rates.
It's just a ride - the economic impact of perception
By ScopeNI 17 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
Another 12th of July, more phantasmagorical news footage of screaming, hatred and violence – what now for Brand Northern Ireland?
2015 Party Conference Season
By NICVA 15 Jul 2015 Jenna Maghie
The Assembly has just entered its summer recess and will reconvene for plenary sessions on the 7th September when parties will start to look towards Party Conference season.
Inside the Orange Heritage Museum
By ScopeNI 9 Jul 2015 Nick Garbutt
Scope visits the newly-opened Museum of Orange Heritage on Belfast’s Cregagh Road.
Infirm foundations – underachievement must be addressed
By ScopeNI 9 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
Last week the PUP released a report on education, focused on underachievement by working-class protestants. Scope takes a look at the points made by the paper – and identifies a further conclusion of its own.
DEL Departmental Monitoring Group: Departmental restructure
By NICVA 9 Jul 2015 Jenny McEneaney
The first NICVA Employment and Learning DMG, chaired by Lorraine Boyd (Bryson Charitable Group NEETs Forum), welcomed DEL Permanent Secretary Derek Baker.
Children's book scheme reaches the end of the road
By ScopeNI 7 Jul 2015 Nick Garbutt
When the Department of Education announced it was to stop funding Northern Ireland’s Bookstart scheme it said it was “working around the clock” to find alternative sources of funding.
NI health trusts ‘able to sideline abuse cases at will’
By ScopeNI 3 Jul 2015 Ryan Miller
Scope looks at claims that the joint protocols between health and justice officials over the management of potentially criminal abuse encourage cover ups in local trusts.
Why planners say it is okay to enclose open spaces
By ScopeNI 1 Jul 2015 Nick Garbutt
The recent Glasmullin dispute has raised questions about Northern Ireland’s planning laws, Scope dissects the issues.
Detail Data Launch
By NICVA 30 Jun 2015 Andrea Thornbury
A new programme funded by Big Lottery Fund NI to support voluntary and community organisations understand and use open data effectively to create and enhance social, economic and environmental value was launched yesterday.
New equality guidance for charities
By NICVA 26 Jun 2015 Denise Copeland
The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland has published new guidance to support charities in understanding the complexities of equality legislation as it may apply to them.
Same sex marriage battle goes to court
By ScopeNI 24 Jun 2015 Nick Garbutt
The first gay couple to celebrate a civil partnership in Northern Ireland are seeking a judicial review challenging the ban on gay couples getting married here.
From Austerity to Inequality
By NICVA 24 Jun 2015 Eoin Rooney
There is much talk of 'austerity'. But what does it really mean?
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