{"id":124556,"date":"2025-05-23T06:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124556\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T06:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T06:32:11","slug":"belfast-council-rejection-of-armed-forces-covenant-not-procedurally-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124556\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast council rejection of Armed Forces Covenant \u2018not procedurally wrong\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">DUP councillor who proposed motion says veterans aren\u2019t being treated fairly\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Armed Forces Covenant primarily relates to issues around housing, education and  healthcare\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/c902c4e6-e2d7-40c6-a63e-200239b97cfc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Armed Forces Covenant primarily relates to issues around housing, education and  healthcare<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A decision to reject a motion that would have seen Belfast City Council sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant was not wrong on procedural grounds, a legal review has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The DUP \u2018called-in\u2019 the decision to reject the motion, which is aimed at ensuring no former or serving member of the armed services is disadvantaged compared to other citizens when it comes to the provision of public and commercial services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUP councillor who proposed motion says veterans aren\u2019t being treated fairly The Armed Forces Covenant primarily relates to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6571,5813,924,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-124556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-andrew-madden","9":"tag-belfast-city-council","10":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114555751524641595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}