Public Services Resources

Questions on Free Period Products were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) Survey in 2025.
Questions on Safeguarding were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) Survey in 2024.
Questions on Social Care for Older People were asked in NILT in 2010 and 2015.
Questions on Public Services were asked in NILT in 2007.
Questions on Welfare Reform were asked in NILT in 2000.
Questions on Health Issues were asked in NILT in 2001 and 2005.
Questions on Complementary Medicine were asked in NILT in 2005.
Questions on Healthcare were asked in NILT in 2006.
Questions on Health were also asked of 16-year-olds in the Young Life and Times (YLT) Survey in 2006.

ARK Resources

• Everybody's business? Adult safeguarding in Northern Ireland (Research Update 163) by Lorna Montgomery and Paula Devine is based on data from the 2024 Life and Times survey.
• No Change: Northern Ireland Attitudes and Social Care Policy (Research Update 114) by Ann Marie Gray and Paula Devine, is based on data from the 2010 and 2015 Life and Times Survey
• Developing social care policy: the public voice (Research Update 78) by Ann Marie Gray, Lizanne Dowds and Paula Devine, is based on data from the 2010 Life and Times Survey.
• What difference does a decade make? Satisfaction with the NHS in Northern Ireland in 1996 and 2006 (Research Update 52) by Ann Marie Gray, compares results from the 2006 Life and Times Survey and the 1996 Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey.
• Attitudes to Health Information and Public Involvement in Healthcare (Research Update 14) by Ann Marie Gray and Dorothy Whittington,
• Questions on Healthcare were asked within the Public Spending section of the 1996 Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey.

Links

• Information on organisations who work together to plan, deliver and monitor Health and Social Care across Northern Ireland is provided on the website of the Department of Health.
• Adult safeguarding in Northern Ireland operates within a policy framework established by the Adult Safeguarding: Prevention and Protection in Partnership framework, published in 2015.
• The Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series (KESS) is a partnership between the Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information Service and academia aiming to promote evidence-informed policy and law-making. On 7 October 2026, Paula Devine and Lorna Montgomery presented the seminar Public Understanding of Adult Safeguarding in Northern Ireland, based on data from the 2024 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey. The slides, policy brief and video are available here
• The Department for Communities has strategic responsibility in Northern Ireland for community and voluntary sector development, housing, social security benefits, pensions and child support.

Maintained by Paula Devine