Life experiences in the first 1,000 days can have long-term implications for a child’s health, growth and development, an updated framework for NI’s universal child health promotion programme emphasises.

Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has announced the introduction of enhanced enforcement procedures to ensure roads infrastructure in new developments is adopted into the public road network.

Junior Ministers Joanne Bunting and Aisling Reilly have welcomed the start of construction work on the Derry-Londonderry on the North Atlantic (DNA) Museum.

“Saved living expenses’ will no longer be deducted from the compensation payments made to people who have been subject to a miscarriage of justice.

Education Minister Paul Givan has today welcomed the beginning of a new phone-free pilot scheme in schools, which will involve more than 8,000 young people across Northern Ireland.