The Poverty Alliance responds to latest food bank statistics
16/04/2014 – Figures published by the Trussell Trust today show a fivefold increase in demand for food banks. In 2013/14, 913,138 men, women and children used a Trussell Trust food…
EAPN Ireland: 1.2 million people now experience deprivation, twice the pre-recession figure
16/04/2014 – CSO figures published today show that 1.2 million people now experience deprivation, twice the pre-recession figure. “Nice words about ‘protecting the most vulnerable’ are not enough. We need…
The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland): Welcome Progress on the Living Wage and Procurement
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…
The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland): New edition of Poverty in Scotland
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…
Belgian Anti-poverty networks react to national authorities’ contradictions on poverty
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…
EAPN Spain: Launch of the X Solidarity campaign
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…
BAPN is campaigning with three manifestos for the federal (national) and European elections
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…
EAPN Ireland: Making the Social Inclusion Forum Relevant – the ‘implementation gap’
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.
FNARS (member of EAPN France): What solutions for the homeless, bactk toe street from 31 March?
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…
EAPN Poland hosts seminar on in-work poverty
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…