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🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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I hope that the Minister is aware that universal credit is a working benefit. I have many constituents, as he does, who are both hard-working and in receipt of a benefit. The constant and consistent use of fake contrasts is really dehumanising. I will focus on rural settings. Social and economic disadvantage has a huge impact, particularly in a constituency such as mine, on access to...
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The nearest setting can be up to five miles away. What rural impact and concerns have been taken into account when looking at poverty and access to the provision?
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I will use my final Member's statement before recess to reflect on the work of the Ten is Too Young Coalition and all those who have worked so passionately to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR), including Voice of Young People in Care, the Children's Law Centre, NIACRO, the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, Children in Northern Ireland and...
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T4. Ms Mulholland asked the Minister of Health, after stating that, even before the events of this week and last week, she had been writing to him for quite some time about safeguarding and the gaps in our safeguarding legislation, to commit to a review of our safeguarding legislation in order to make safeguarding training mandatory for anyone who has any involvement with children, young...
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Safeguarding falls within your remit, Minister. We know that, but we also know that it is the responsibility of each and every one of us. That is part of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995. Faith-based counselling is not subject to the same regulation as other clinical counselling services. That points to a real issue and a real risk. All that I want to do, Minister, is put that on...
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4. Ms Mulholland asked the Minister of Health to outline any assessment that has been made of the role and capacity of social workers in delivering safeguarding, early intervention and family support services. (AQO 3807/22-27)
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Thank you, Minister. I am glad to hear you say that the role played by social workers is "complex and challenging". From what I hear from those who have contacted me, social workers are stretched to capacity. What is the Department doing to address that? Will you take the opportunity to refute your party leader's assertion that social work, in this context, is about a: "woolly, nice sense of...
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4. Ms Mulholland asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on the progress of their Department becoming the sponsor of the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) in line with the recommendation in the tailored review of NICCY commissioned by the Department for Communities following ‘New Decade, New Approach’. (AQO 3750/22-27)
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