The Scottish Living Wage Campaign has welcomed the announcement by Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP that the Scottish Government is to amend the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Bill to require local authorities to include the living wage as part of the evaluation process in procurement processes.
08/03/2014 – The Child Poverty Action Group in association with the Poverty Alliance (EAPN in Scotland), the Open University and Glasgow Caledonian University have published a new edition of Poverty in Scotland series of books. The latest edition focuses on the key social justice and anti-poverty issues facing Scotland as it decides its constitutional future…
21/03/2014 – The Belgian Anti-Poverty Network (BAPN) and the Flemish Anti-Poverty Network (Netwerk tegen Armoede) reacted to the declarations of Maggie De Block, Belgian Secretary of State for Social Inclusion and the Fight against Poverty, who reacted to the increase in poverty in Belgium (1/5 children in Belgium grows up in poverty, 1/3 in the…
01/04/2014 – With more than 10 million taxpayers who chose to mark their solidarity by ticking the box “Activities of general and social interest” for 2013, € 278,918,000 million euro have been collected , which will contribute to implement this year 1,135 programs benefitting to nearly 6 million people in poverty or at risk of…
On 25 May, Belgium will vote at European level but also at Belgian level (for the federal and regional Parliaments). Belgium and Europe need political decision makers who get formally committed for a more social Belgium and Europe, to stop impoverishing policies and take concrete and efficient actions to eradicate poverty in Belgium and Europe.…
EAPN Ireland and the Community Workers Cooperative (CWC) carried out 10 meetings across Ireland in preparation for the 2014 Social Inclusion Forum which took place on 1st April.
19/03/2014 – March 31st marks the end of the winter break, which means evictions suspended during winter will resume and emergency winter accomodation facilities closing down. While figures of the Barometer 115 for the month of February 2014 show an extreme saturation of the accommodation in the 37 departments studied with only 44% of accommodation…
13/03/2014 – EAPN Poland organized in Warsaw a seminar “In work poverty in the EU and Poland”. The seminar started by presentation of Peter Kelly from the Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland) who told the participants about EAPN’s recommendation on in-work poverty and about the similarities in that respect between Scotland and Poland.
EAPN Ireland is preparing the Social Inclusion Forum 2014 to be held on 1st April 2014. The network is also organising workshops in each constituency for anti-poverty groups,where all candidates are invited to take part.
18/03/2014 – APF Malta welcomes the Green Paper ‘A Framework for Poverty Reduction and for Social Inclusion’ issued by the Maltese Government, with satisfaction and considers this document as an important step to combat poverty and social exclusion. The Green Paper stands as a thorough and positive roadmap to tackle this reality. As a network…
