Giving Poverty a Voice
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
Blog: The Raw Realness of “The Roles We Play”
This poster was part of a government campaign against benefit fraud that worsened the negative stereotyping of people in poverty (…) Read more
‘Soul Restoring’: the Values of the ATD Fourth World Community
From left: Amanda Button, Moraene Roberts, and Thomas Mayes When choosing our National Coordination Team in March 2019, three of (…) Read more
‘It’s a Scandal that Experiencing Poverty So Often Leads to Children Being Forcibly Removed from Their Parents’
Above: Tom Croft is second from left. (Photo by Diana Skelton.) On 15 February 2019, Just Fair convened a meeting (…) Read more
Poverty2Solutions Group Meets at Parliament
Above: MP Harriet Harman, at left, welcomes Poverty2Solutions in her office. “What do you think I need to hear?” It (…) Read more
Dr. Rhetta Moran: On Oliver Cromwell and Universal Credit
Above: A meeting of RAPAR’s leadership in Manchester To mark the World Day for Overcoming Poverty, Dr. Rhetta Moran and (…) Read more
The United Nations Challenges the UK’s ‘Mean-Spirited’ Policies
One speaker addressing the United Nations Special Rapporteur displayed a quilt she is making in memory of people whose deaths (…) Read more