The Review of Public Administration (RPA) in Northern Ireland will have wide ranging and long lasting implications for everyone who lives in NI from council boundaries to health boards. The results of the Review and the changes that have already started to happen will also have specific implications for the voluntary and community sector.
Many in the sector strongly believe that we must start preparing to make the most of the opportunities and challenges that the new structures will offer. These pages will offer a resource for organisations interested in sharing information and working together on the many issues that the RPA has presented.
RPA Timeline
A timeline of the history of the RPA development is available here.
Community planning paper
NICVA and Community Technical Aid have produced a Community Planning paper (560kb Word Document) outlining the key issues for the sector in relation to RPA.
Public Bodies
A consultation document on the draft guiding principles which will help to determine the location of new public bodies in Northern Ireland has now been published. Copies of the consultation document – Guiding Principles for the Location of Public Sector Jobs in Northern Ireland – 
can be downloaded here.
Department of Education
The Department of Education have issued 20 different policy documents outlining current thinking on a number of high level issues related to the RPA. You can see all of the policy documents here.
