To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department will update Priorities for Youth: Improving young people’s lives through youth work, to compliment the new Education Authority.

Schedule 2 (Paragraph 4) of the Education Act provides that any reference to a dissolved body in any statutory provision or document shall, from 1 April 2015, be construed as a reference to the Education Authority. This means that the Department does not need to make large numbers of amendments to regulations or documents merely to substitute references to the ELBs or Staff Commission with references to the Education Authority.

Priorities for Youth is currently being implemented, by the Education Authority and the Youth Council, collaboratively as appropriate, through a phased approach with full implementation expected by the end of 2016.