AQW 9864/22-27

Ms Kate Nicholl
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 11/04/2024
Answered On Date: 19/04/2024
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of individuals who have availed of the Education Authority's School Age Mothers Programme in the last 5 years, broken down by academic year.

Answer:

The number of individuals who have availed of the Education Authority’s School Aged Mothers (SAMs) Programme during the last five academic years are shown below. Some of these individuals have been engaged over multiple years so will be counted in each year.

Academic Year	Number of individuals
2023/24	77
2022/23	49
2021/22	90
2020/21	96
2019/20	121