The Committee for Communities is a
Northern Ireland Assembly
sco-ulster, Norlin Airlan Assemblie
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committee established to advise, assist and scrutinise the work of the
Department for Communities
The Department for Communities (DfC, Irish: ''An Roinn Pobal'', Ulster Scots: ''Depairtment fur Commonities'') is a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive. The minister with overall responsibility f ...
and Minister for Social Development (currently
Nelson McCausland). The committee also plays a key role in the consultation, consideration and development of new
social development Social development can refer to:
* Psychosocial development
* Social change
* Social development theory
* Social Development (journal)
* Social emotional development
* Social progress or social regress
The word decadence, which at first meant ...
legislation.
Social Development Committee - niassembly.gov.uk
, URL accessed 25 November 2008.
Until 2016, the committee was called the Committee for Social Development.
Membership
See also
* Committee
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...
References
External links
Committee for Social Development
{{Northern Ireland Assembly
Northern Ireland Assembly
Committees