The Department of Education (DE) has launched a consultation on the circumstances and arrangements which would enable a parent or carer to excuse their child (opt-out) from receiving age-appropriate, comprehensive and scientifically accurate education on sexual and reproductive health and rights, covering the prevention of early pregnancy and access to abortion. Siobhán will be making […]
The Executive Office (TEO) have issued a consultation to seek views on the new Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls and Foundational Action Plan. This is a draft seven-year Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls which has been co-designed with over 50 partners from across government, community and voluntary […]
Siobhán is working with Carers NI on a joint report on Women, Unpaid Care and Employment. Initial conversations with Carers NI have taken place to discuss how the research might be carried out with the hope of publishing the report early in 2024. We are currently to try and organise a series of focus group […]
Siobhán Harding, WSN Policy Worker, has been working with a student, Anna Monaghan, to produce a series of shorter summaries from the research focusing on specific areas as follows: Costs of Education Unpaid Care Mental Health Debt & Savings Women’s Coping Behaviours What Politicians Should Do Value of Women’s Centres (yet to be published) All […]
OCTOBER 2023 Scheme Funder Note Date Good Things Foundation: National Databank Good Things Foundation Open to applications 2 Oct 2023 Leathersellers Company Charitable Fund: Small Grants The Leathersellers’ Company Open to applications (Closes when 45 cap reached) 2 Oct 2023 Unlimited: International Open Awards British Council Expression of Interest deadline noon on 2 Oct 2023 […]
The Women’s Regional Consortium (WRC) consists of seven established women’s sector organisations that are committed to working in partnership with each other to empower local women in disadvantaged and rurally isolated communities. The purpose of this survey is to inform our work for the year ahead and to make sure we are reaching all sections […]
Siobhán continues to attend meetings of the Cliff Edge Coalition Working Group which is working to strengthen the existing mitigations package for Northern Ireland. Cliff Edge recently relaunched their key asks and Siobhán recorded a video for social media around the Coalition’s key ask to resolve the five-week wait in Universal Credit. The Coalition have […]
Siobhán has joined the Coalition of Carers which is chaired by Carers NI and continues to attend regular meetings of the Coalition. The Coalition is made up of a number of organisations all working to highlight the key issues that carers are facing across Northern Ireland.
Siobhán continues to the meet with the working group for the Northern Ireland Child Payment Coalition. The introduction of a NI Child Payment was a recommendation by the Gender Equality and Anti-Poverty Expert Panels and in the Feminist Recovery Plan.
Siobhán is part of a campaign from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell Trust calling for an Essentials Guarantee within Universal Credit. The Essentials Guarantee would embed in the social security system a principle that at a minimum Universal Credit should protect people from going without essentials. You can read more about the campaign […]
