Integrated schools denied Fresh Start funding
7 releases from 3 parties, 25 February 2024 to 12 March 2024.
Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication
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Nick Mathison calls on Education Minister to protect Integrated Education funding
Alliance Education Spokesperson Nick Mathison calls on the Education Minister to prioritise 10 integrated schools denied Fresh Start funding for capital investment and to redirect £150m taken from the scheme to projects ready to progress.
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Hunter: Excuses won’t cut it for integrated schools
SDLP MLA Cara Hunter says the Education Minister gave no assurances to schools after ten across the North lost ring-fenced Fresh Start capital funding for new buildings, and calls for clarity on completion dates. Matthew O'Toole says the Executive must reveal what it knew and calls for the UK…
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Executive parties must explain integrated funding axe: SDLP
SDLP Opposition demands that Executive parties explain how and why capital funding for new integrated schools and shared education campuses was cut after being ring-fenced under Fresh Start. SDLP MLA Cara Hunter says the Assembly will seek to call the Education Minister to explain the decision.
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Funding reprofiling is act of vandalism, says Mathison
Alliance education spokesperson Nick Mathison MLA says the UK Government's reprofiling of £150 million for shared and integrated schools is vandalism, and calls on the Secretary of State to reverse it and on Education Minister Paul Givan to secure the funds for his Department.
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Education Minister must explain how he will meet obligations to integrated education, says Mathison, ahead of motion
Alliance education spokesperson Nick Mathison MLA says the Education Minister must set out how he will meet his duties to integrated education after £150m Fresh Start funding for ten new-build integrated schools was withdrawn. Ahead of Alliance's motion, he urges the UK Government to reverse the…
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SDLP launch petition to restore funding for integrated schools
SDLP launches a public petition urging the Executive to reinstate funding for new buildings at ten integrated schools, after the money was withdrawn under the financial package agreed with the UK Government. Claire Hanna MP questions Education Minister Paul Givan on when Ministers learned of the…
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Sheehan welcomes cross-party support for shared and integrated education
Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan welcomes cross-party Assembly support for shared and integrated education, condemning the British government's decision to withdraw funding for new shared and integrated school builds, which he says affects at least ten schools.
Parties with no matching press release found on their website
- DUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (checked – releases found, partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
- UUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- TUV: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
- Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (could not be checked), so a statement may have been missed.
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