The current cost of living is pushing more people into poverty, with almost 68% of low income...
Northern Ireland
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07/06/2012
Indicators of Social Participation
This paper explores the definition of poverty, based on the concept that people are poor if they are prevented through lack of resources from carrying out obligations that are associated with their social role. The paper investigates which common social roles are found in social surveys and which activities are associated with these roles. It looks at ways of capturing participation in common social activities.
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29/05/2012
PSE Northern Ireland
The PSE UK research in Northern Ireland finds that levels of deprivaion and financial hardship are more extensive in Northern Ireland than the UK as a whole. The research also exposed the deep impact of the troubles on peoples lives.
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28/05/2012
Fuel poverty in Northern Ireland – ‘little progress’
‘Little progress’ seems to have been made in tackling fuel poverty in Northern Ireland, according to a committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly. It says eliminating fuel poverty will require a long-term strategic policy approach.
Members of the Social Development Committee say it is clear that bridging the gap between identifying solutions to fuel poverty and implementing those solutions is going to require innovative thinking.
Key recommendations include:
The Northern Ireland Executive should establish an overall action plan to address fuel poverty through a coordinated and collaborative approach. Individual task groups should identify and prioritise workable and realistic solutions to fuel poverty, and not develop ‘wish lists’.Source: Report on Fuel Poverty, Second Report (Session 2011/2012), Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Social Development, TSO
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02/05/2012
Poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ireland since 2009
A new study has examined how poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ireland have changed since 2009.
Researchers for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found:
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26/04/2012
Child poverty in Northern Ireland could worsen warns watchdog
Child poverty in Northern Ireland could increase as a result of welfare reforms proposed by the UK Coalition government, warns Patricia Lewsley-Mooney, the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People. Lewlsey-Mooney said: ‘The inequalities already experienced by many children living in poverty could worsen considerably as a result of this welfare reform legislation, if action is not taken.’
The Commissioner challenged the idea that the Northern Ireland Executive had no choice but to adopt all the reforms, and called on it to see what scope there was to implement them in a way that protects children.
The Commissioner’s comments coincided with the publication of a detailed report examining the impact of the welfare reforms in Northern Ireland.
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22/12/2011
More people using food banks
Increasing numbers of families and adults are relying on food handouts to get by according to reports from a number of charities. The charity FareShare, which redistributes waste food from major food manufacturers and supermarkets to social care charities, has seen a 20 per cent rise in the number of people it is feeding – from 29,500 a year to 35,000.
FareShare, which operates from 17 sites across the UK, has also seen a rise in the number of charities that have signed up to receive food for distributuon in the past 12 months, from 600 to 700. More than 40 per cent of those charities are recording increases in demand for their feeding services of up to 50 per cent.
Another charity, the Trussell Trust, says the charity’s foodbanks will feed up to 130,000 people in 2011/12, but says that the country actually needs about 1,000 foodbanks to ensure most people have access to one.
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25/11/2011
PSE Northern Ireland 2002/03
While Northern Ireland had long been recognised as one of the most deprived parts of the United Kingdom, comparisons with other regions and countries was difficult as little specific data on poverty had been collected. Northern Ireland was not included in the earlier PSE and Breadline Britain surveys and had no tradition of publishing household income data. The PSE Northern Ireland survey set out to redress this. The core aims of the research were:
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