AQW 1421/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Education
To ask the Minister of Education for his assessment of the viability of extending the Education Support Fund to include adopted children.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 3 February 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 3 February 2020
- Answer due by
- 18 February 2020
- Answered
- 11 February 20208 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Education
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The Department of Education and Department of Health are currently in the final stages of developing a joint Looked after Children Strategy entitled, ‘A Life Deserved: ‘Caring’ for Children and Young People in Northern Ireland’.
One of the proposed commitments to action under the Learning and Achieve outcome, is to review the effectiveness of looked after children-targeted funding, currently provided through the Common Funding Formula and, if effective, consider extending it to other groups.