by Policy | May 28, 2024 | News
On 28 May 2024, the Minister for Communities Gordon Lyons MLA briefed the All Party Group on Homelessness and took a wide range of questions from MLAs and observers who attended. In his presentation, Minister Lyons outlined four key areas of work for his Department in...
by Policy | Sep 5, 2023 | News
On Tuesday September 5, the APG on Homelessness received a briefing from officials from the Department for Communities on the development of the Year 4 Interdepartmental Homelessness Action Plan (known as IDHAP). The IDHAP The Action Plan is an important strategic...
by Policy | May 30, 2023 | News
This afternoon the All Party Group on Homelessness held its Annual General Meeting to elect office bearers and agree a workplan for the upcoming year. The following office bearers were elected for the next year: Chairperson: Ciara Ferguson MLA Vice-Chairperson: Kellie...
by Niall Bakewell | Sep 15, 2022 | News
This morning the Department for Communities published the latest edition of the homelessness bulletin for January to June 2022. The statistics make for grim reading. Here are the headlines: During this period 8120 households presented as homeless. This was an increase...
by Policy | Dec 6, 2021 | News
This afternoon, the APG on Homelessness held an event to mark Homelessness Awareness Week 2021. The event heard contributions from Ciara Ferguson MLA, the Vice-Chair of the APG on Homelessness; school children from Armagh CBS primary, John Paul II Primary, St...