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The Department of Education’s 'Give your child a helping hand’ campaign highlights the essential role that parents and carers can play in helping their children do well at school and improve their life chances.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into effect on 25 May 2018 introduces changes to the information that an organisation must provide to individuals relating to how it uses and stores personal data...

The Department of Education currently provides more than £70m of Targeting Social Need (TSN) funding to schools each year. This is allocated as part of core school budgets, in recognition of the additional challenges and...

The current home to school transport policy circular was issued in 1996 and has remained broadly unchanged

Irish Medium Pre-School Research

Advice and guidance on what to consider and how and when to apply for a school place for your child can be found on the NI Direct website:

Information on the Department of Education's play and leisure policy, its play and leisure implementation plan and its Play Matters campaign.

There are now approximately 84,000 pupils eligible for transport assistance in Northern Ireland. This means that roughly 26% of school pupils are being transported to and from school every day at a cost of nearly...

The Review of the Common Funding Scheme (CFS) Project is a key project in delivering the outcomes of the Transformation Programme. The Department’s budget allocation for each school is distributed through the Common Funding Formula...

Early Years Education and Learning provision supports children and their families by providing positive early years education and learning experiences in safe, stimulating and supportive environments. These services are aimed at the holistic development of...

In 2017, the then Ministers for Education (DE) and the Economy (DfE) agreed that officials from their respective departments should work together to develop a more strategic and joined up approach to 14-19 education and...

The “Delivering Schools for the Future” Project is a key project in supporting the realisation of the outcomes of the Transformation Programme.

This Education Authority is seeking to enhance the continuum of provision for children with special needs, particularly those at stage 3 of the current 5 stage statementing process.

The Education Authority is leading the development of a new school network system that will replace the current C2K platform. The new Education Technology Services (ETS) system will be made available in all grant aided...

The Education Authority is developing a new procurement model in order to improve the quality, efficiency and cost of maintenance services to schools

The Education Authority launched pre-school and primary online admissions in January 2019.

The EA is developing a project focused on building a schools data profiling framework. The framework is designed to enable the EA to transform the way they support schools and build system capacity.

The project has enabled staff within the Education Authority to become trained in portage; a home-based educational service for pre-school children with SEN and their families.

Strand 1 of the ‘Delivering Schools for the Future’ project is jointly delivered by the Education Authority (EA) and Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS). It aims to substantially increase the pace of area planning...

The Compendium of School Evaluation Case Studies in Northern Ireland, Towards Civic Engagement - Sharing the Impact of Shaped Professional Networks in Challenging Times was launched in February 2019.