First Minister Peter Robinson visits Barnardo's NI Tullycarnet Family Project

First Minister and local East Belfast MLA Peter Robinson recenlty visited Barnardo's NI Tullycarnet Family Project. It has been supporting local families for over 15 eyars and offers a range of parenting support classes including Cook It!, Active Dads and an after school club. It is also part of the Tullycarnet Neighbourhood Renewal Project working with youth groups and offering family and individual parental support to improve literacy and numeracy levels, adult education, confidence-building and engaging fathers in children's learning.

Barnardo's Tullycarnet Family Project Manager Claire Humphrey said, " We were delighted to welcome First Minister and local MLA Peter Robinson to our Project. The families we work with our dedicated to providing the best for their children and we are there to support them, through education, support and collaboration between schools and the community."

First Minister Peter Robinson said: " I was very impressed by my visit to Tullycarnet Family Project.  There is a real need to address education achievement in East Belfast and programmes like this, working from the bottom up and engaging on individual, family and community levels is how we will see real change.”