Publications

Summary of Equality Screening of 2020/21 Resource Budget 

This memo is intended to provide guidance on the eligibility, recording, period of support, recording and verification of prisoner’s enrolled on projects funded under priority 1 and 2 of the NI ESF programme

The Department monitors recently published relevant research reports and, each quarter, produces a summary in the Research Digests for wider dissemination.

This circular provides guidance and funding arrangements for the InnovateUs Programme, covering the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021.

This circular provides guidance and funding arrangements for the Skills Focus Programme, delivered as part of the Department’s Employer Support provision, covering the period from 01 April 2020 to 31 March 2021.

In summer 2019 the Department for the Economy undertook a call for evidence relating to hardship associated with participation in the Non-Domestic Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme.

This memo provides information to project promoters on the subject of enrolment of participants who have been furloughed during COVID-19 crisis.

This memo provides project promoters an update on the requirement to urgently identify appropriate alternative approaches that will enable leaners to get their vocational qualification.

A factsheet has been produced that details monthly online job posting trends across Northern Ireland. It includes an assessment of selected sectors as well as skills in demand.

The Careers Occupational Information Unit, within the Careers Service, produces regular bulletins on growing sectors within the economy. This bulletin covers "Data Analytics".

Guidance around the temporary relaxation of eligibility criteria for participants classed as not in education, employment or training (NEETS) or on a Community Family Support Programme (CFSP).

This research has been produced by the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre, led by Invest NI, using the methodology developed in the Skills Barometer, in order to undertake a more detailed skills analysis at a localised level within Northern Ireland.

Advice from DfE NICSHR Business Partner on working remotely.

Given the importance of migrants to the NI economy the Department for the Economy (DfE) commissioned Oxford Economics to assess the potential economic impacts of the UK Government’s Immigration proposals which will come into effect on 1 January 2021. It is recognise

The performance team have received a number of queries regarding the recording of IRI and LTRI of into employment and into education for participants. The purpose of this memo is to provide guidance in this area.

Request to projects for advice on issues being encountered due to Covid-19 crisis.

Oral statement made to the Northern Ireland Assembly on 24 March 2020 by Economy Minister, Diane Dodds on the global health and economic crisis.

This memo aims to provide some certainty to beneficiaries funded under Priorities 1 and 2 of the NI ESF Programme 2014-2020 whose services are adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This memo provides project promoters with the latest advice from ESF PDB around COVID-19 (coronavirus).

This memo provides project promoters with the latest advice from ESF PDB around COVID-19 (coronavirus).