Stephen Farry MP
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Deputy Leader of @AllianceParty | MP for North Down | Westminster updates: @AlliancePartyUK | Constituency enquiries: [email protected]
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Great to talk this afternoon with students from Sullivan Upper School politics society. Lots of topical questions on domestic and international challenges
Today Sorcha Eastwood MLA launched the new All-Party Group on Skills.
The first enquiry will be skills in social care.
Those working in social care are highly skilled and essential and the goal will be to improve training pathways, retention and attractiveness of the sector.
The UK Government has responded to Stephen Farry MP to say it won't be increasing #childcare support through #TaxFreeChildcare
This makes it all the more critical that we see progress from the NI Executive on the promised interim support & on the new Childcare Strategy.
🚨CHILDCARE UPDATE: The Treasury has declined Stephen Farry MP 's requests for interim support. We will keep pushing for more central funding, but this further emphasises the need for urgent action from the NI Education Minister. The Treasury expects this to be Executive-led👇
Good to meet with Shadow Secretary of State Hilary Benn earlier this week along with Stephen Farry MP and John Blair MLA.
Productive discussions on:
▶️ Climate Change
▶️ EU Exit
▶️ Future funding for NI
▶️ The importance of Agriculture support in the next Spending Review
“We need to move beyond the notion that NI can be simply divided into ‘two traditional communities’ for evermore… The sport you played, the school you went to, and even your place of work were often defined along the traditional sectarian fault line,” says Paula Bradshaw MLA
“We must also confront the reality that there are still communities which live a pre-1998 existence, in single-identity areas often sadly complete with paramilitary trappings where children and young people continue, even in 2024, to be exploited,” says Paula Bradshaw MLA.
'A genuinely ‘shared future’, is not a neutral future where we are afraid to express ourselves. On the contrary, it is one where, cultural expression is valued, and where we are not confined to one side of a sectarian fault line,' says Paula Bradshaw MLA.
#AllianceWorks
Great to visit YMCA North Down and hear about their commitment to providing affordable, accessible and flexible childcare!
We urgently need short-term childcare support and development of a childcare strategy - I know Kate Nicholl will continue to ensure this remains priority.