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Campaigns Update

Campaigns:  Guarantee our Essentials 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…
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Consultation on Department for Communities Budget 2025-26 allocations

This document details the Minister for Communities' initial Budget 2025-26 decisions and how they will impact on the Department’s ability to deliver public services.  Siobhán hopes to make a detailed response to this consultation.  If you…
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Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper – Department for Work & Pensions Consultation

There has been considerable coverage in the media about the Labour Government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits including Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Universal Credit health support.  The Pathways to Work consultation outlines…
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Research Update

Siobhán continues to lobby around the findings and recommendations of a number of Consortium research papers as follows: Meeting with Fermanagh & Omagh Council on Women, Skills & Barriers to Work research paper findings and recommendations …
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Poverty & Disability: The Pathways to Work Seminar

NIRWN attended the Joseph Rowntree Foundation at Ulster University for seminar on "Poverty & Disability: The Pathways to Work" where we discussed the anticipated impact in NI of the UK Government’s Pathways to Work Green Paper and explored…
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Pillars for Peacebuilding Toolkit launch

The Women's Spaces team along with all four project partners (Women's Platform, WRDA, NIRWN and WSN) would like to invite NIRWN members to the launch of our new digital toolkit Pillars for Peacebuilding, a toolkit on women's activism in Northern…
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Farrans Construction Supports Hands-On Learning at St Patrick’s Primary School, Hilltown

WOMEN'STEC wants to extend a big thank you to the team at Farrans Construction for their fantastic support and collaboration on a recent project with St Patrick’s Primary School, Hilltown. Together, we worked with a brilliant group of students…
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The Department for the Economy (DfE) has published a public consultation on modernisation and reform of Credit Unions.

Minister for the Economy, Dr Caoimhe Archibald MLA, has formally launched a public consultation on modernisation and reform of Credit Unions. DfE officials have co-designed the proposed policy changes with Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU)…
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Domestic Rating Measures will push more Women into Poverty

In our response to the Department’s earlier consultation on Domestic Rating Measures we highlighted a range of issues that impact on people’s ability to pay for any proposed charges in relation to revenue raising which we re-state here.…
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Pathways Plus: Apprenticeship Inclusion Challenge Fund Success!

We’re thrilled to announce that WOMEN'STEC has been awarded a grant from the Department for the Economy’s Apprenticeship Inclusion Challenge Fund for our Pathways Plus project. This initiative is all about breaking down barriers and boosting…

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