{"id":281983,"date":"2025-07-22T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281983\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:09","slug":"almost-a-quarter-of-ni-parents-prefer-child-not-go-to-integrated-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281983\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost a quarter of NI parents prefer child not go to integrated schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The vast majority, 85.3%, of those who selected an integrated school as their first preference said it was &#8220;important&#8221; or &#8220;very important&#8221; that their child attends an integrated school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those who selected a non-integrated school were also asked if they would want their choice to transform to become an integrated school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response, 37.5% said they &#8220;don&#8217;t mind&#8221;, while 37% responded &#8220;no&#8221; and 16.9% said &#8220;yes&#8221;. The remainder said they did not know or would prefer not to say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The survey follows the Integrated Education Act which was passed in 2022 by the Northern Ireland Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It requires the Department of Education to facilitate and support integrated education as well as measure demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The legislation was the result of a private member&#8217;s bill brought by the Alliance Party assembly member Kellie Armstrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vast majority, 85.3%, of those who selected an integrated school as their first preference said it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-281983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114895847739996198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281983","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=281983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}