Social Investment Fund
£1.7m boost from social investment fund aims to increase employment rates
EMPLOYMENT initiative 'Let’s Work' has received £1.
Video: DUP and Sinn Féin walk out during Social Investment Fund debate
THE DUP and Sinn Féin have been criticised for walking out of a discussion on the controversial Social Investment Fund (SIF).
Claire Simpson: Social Investment Fund debacle shows it's not what you know, it's who you know
"Never ask of money spent/ Where the spender thinks it went," the American poet Robert Frost wrote.
UVF killer sat on group which awarded £881,000 from Social Investment Fund to his own project
A CONVICTED killer was employed as operations manager and lead partner in a £881,000 Social Investment Fund project as well as sitting on the steering group which awarded the public funding.
No 'audit trail' to explain how church hall jumped up the funding rankings
THE Auditor General has heavily criticised the lack of transparency in how millions of pounds of Social Investment Fund (SIF) money was allocated, with no "audit trail" to show how projects were scored during selection process.
Sinn Féin and DUP continue to defend SIF scheme despite Audit Office report
THE leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has asked the Westminster Public Accounts Committee, to investigate potential financial wrongdoing, following a critical Audit Office report into the £90 million, Social Investment Fund (SIF).
Stormont speaker among those to declare conflict of interest
A DAMNING audit office report into the allocation of public money through the controversial Social Investment Fund (SIF) pointed to widespread and largely undocumented conflicts of interest.
Flawed Social Investment Fund reflects badly on Stormont administration
Perhaps the most depressing aspect of the Audit Office's damning assessment of the Social Investment Fund (SIF) is that it does not come as a huge surprise.
