Giving Poverty a Voice
Understanding Poverty and Social Rights Through Lived Experience
This article, first published on Amnesty International UK / Blogs, was written by Tom Croft and Moraene Roberts, National Coordination Team (…) Read more
Londoners Are Invited: Saturday 19 October 2019
To mark the World Day for Overcoming Poverty, please join us at 12:30 at the Bermondsey Wall East (SE16 4NB) (…) Read more
UN International Day to End Poverty – 17th October
This commemorative stone in George Square, Glasgow, honours the courage and dignity of people in poverty. It was inaugurated on (…) Read more
‘Let Me Tell You About Social Discrimination’
To mark the World Day for Overcoming Poverty in London on 17 October 2018, one woman gave this speech: I (…) Read more
Practice Guide by British Association for Social Work Features ATD Fourth World
Above: Laura Mason, Tom Croft, and Eric Knibbs represented ATD Fourth World at the launch event. On 4 September in (…) Read more
Do Your Duty for Equality
Poverty2Solutions (of which ATD Fourth World is a founding member) is calling on the UK government to ‘do your duty (…) Read more
Pushing Forward for a Socio-Economic Duty
At left, Margaret Green, MP, listens to members of Poverty2Solutions. After a very encouraging meeting with Harriet Harman MP in (…) Read more
York Festival of Ideas: Focus Day on Inspiring Change
On 13 June 2019, Amanda Button and Diana Skelton were invited to represent ATD Fourth World on a panel about ‘Activism and Action’ organised by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of a Focus Day on ‘Poverty: How Can We Tell a New Story to Inspire Change?’
Building Quality in Inclusive, Participatory, and Emancipatory Research
On 3-5 July, the National Centre for Research Methods hosted this summer school in Southhampton. Moraene Roberts and Tom Croft represented ATD Fourth World on a panel called ‘Perspectives on participatory action research and policy development to inspire and inform’.
The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Housing, Welfare, and Social Care
‘Social services already treat us as numbers. Most professionals are very quick to judge you based on a report, before (…) Read more