Thursday 22 June 2023 at 2pm– 4pm at Knockbreda Health and Wellbeing Centre, 110 Saintfield Road, Belfast, BT8 6GR If you are a carer of someone who is in receipt of Older People Services from Belfast Trust and eligible for a carer assessment, we would like to invite you to a Focus Group. We would […]
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 spoke at the launch event about the Coalition’s key ask to resolve the five-week wait in Universal Credit. A revised briefing paper […]
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. During Carer’s Week, Siobhán attended the launch of the […]
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 now part of a new 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 […]
Register The Women’s Regional Consortium has carried out research with over 240 women across Northern Ireland to identify and explore the impact of the Cost of Living Crisis on their lives. Together with Ulster University this data has been analysed and collated to paint a picture of how women on the lowest incomes are being […]
Department for Communities have to date held roundtable discussions and a number of focus groups regarding the review. DfC wants to ensure that they are engaging with all Section 75 groups and intend to hold specific group meetings, these include Disabilities, LGBTQI+, BAME and women. Board members and staff of Women’s Regional Consortium organisations, and Women’s Centres, are […]
The Women’s Regional Consortium has carried out research with over 240 women across Northern Ireland to identify and explore the impact of the Cost of Living Crisis on their lives. Together with Ulster University this data has been analysed and collated to paint a picture of how women on the lowest incomes are being impacted […]
‘Women of the Borderlands’ project is funded by HEA North-South Shared Island programme. It seeks to capture women’s experiences of the border during and after the Troubles. Researchers would like to hear from women who either live in proximity to the border and travel/travelled across it as part of their everyday lives, whether it be […]
Are you a carer living in a rural area? The Carer Poverty Commission is running a focus group with unpaid carers from rural areas in Northern Ireland to understand their experience of poverty and financial hardship. The focus group will play a critical role in their research, exploring: How people in rural areas with unpaid caring responsibilities have […]
