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Brendan Hughes

£1.9m funding boost from UK government to help schools transform to integrated status

A £1.9million funding package to support schools in Northern Ireland that wish to transform to integrated status has been announced by the UK government.

The funding will go to the Integrated Education Fund and the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education, which work to enable more children from different community backgrounds to be educated together.

Secretary of State Brandon Lewis said he hoped integration in schools in Northern Ireland "will soon become the norm and not the exception".

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