Motion Amendment

Motion TitleTackling Child Poverty - Amendment 1

Motion Amendment TextLeave out all after ‘2023/24’ and insert: ‘believes that the proposed Executive Anti-Poverty Strategy can have a significant impact in addressing this challenge by establishing a clear framework in which poverty and its impacts can be eradicated and by enabling new policies and practical and sustainable timelines for delivery and budgets; calls on the Executive to make the eradication of child poverty a cross-departmental priority in the context of a final Anti-Poverty Strategy; and further calls on the Executive to give consideration to further initiatives, shaped by lived experience, including the feasibility of a new child payment, an enhanced Childcare Subsidy Scheme and enhanced provision of free school meals in the context of competing priorities and the highly challenging budgetary situation facing all departments.’

Amendment Number1

Motion Amendment CategoryPrivate Members' Motion

Date Tabled to Business Office10/10/2025