AQW 21135/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Education
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of children currently (i) accessing; and (ii) on the waiting list for the Education Welfare Service, broken down by constituency.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 29 June 2021
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 29 June 2021
- Answer due by
- 16 July 2021
- Answered
- 7 July 20218 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Education
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The details requested are not stored by constituency but rather by Education Authority office area and then by teams within that area.
These are set out as follows:
| Office Area | Team | Number of Active Cases | Number of Unallocated cases |
| Armagh | Craigavon | 160 | 90 |
| Armagh | Dungannon | 189 | 30 |
| Armagh | Newry | 149 | 11 |
| Ballymena | Central (Ballymena/Antrim) | 126 | 47 |
| Ballymena | Northern (Cullycapple, Coleraine) | 141 | 63 |
| Ballymena | Southern (Loughview, Newtownabbey) | 122 | 68 |
| Belfast | North | 195 | 70 |
| Belfast | South & East | 59 | 21 |
| Belfast | West | 165 | 114 |
| Dundonald | Bangor | 146 | 102 |
| Dundonald | Downpatrick | 77 | 21 |
| Dundonald | Dundonald | 133 | 47 |
| Dundonald | Hillsborough | 163 | 42 |
| Omagh | Derry North/Limavady | 149 | 20 |
| Omagh | Derry South | 130 | 8 |
| Omagh | Enniskillen | 45 | |
| Omagh | Omagh | 71 | 16 |
| Omagh | Strabane | 63 | 3 |
| SAM Co-ordinators | 99 | ||
| Total | 2382 | 773 |