Giving Poverty a Voice
Understanding parent-to-parent advocacy, teen advocacy, peer support, and family advocacy
Above: an ATD capacity-building session for activists with lived experience of poverty. Tammy Mayes is fourth from the right, wearing (…) Read more
Stolen identities: The devastating impact of social work services on the identity of children in poverty
On the 16th of May, Youth Voices, a project run by ATD Fourth World and Teen Advocacy, were invited to (…) Read more
Reflecting on ATD’s report to the UN on ‘povertyism’ and human rights in the UK
“One of the things that really comes across about our risk-averse child protection system is that we could go on (…) Read more
ATD Youth Campaign – Study session at the European Youth Centre
As part of a Youth Campaign 2022-23 run by the International Movement ATD Fourth World, on 24-28 April, almost sixty (…) Read more
Presenting evidence at the House of Lords on digital exclusion
On 28 February, the APLE (Addressing Poverty with Lived Experience) Collective was invited to present evidence to the Communications and (…) Read more
Anti-Poverty Experts Training Social Work Students
Understanding poverty, always of crucial importance, matters even more as the UK is battling an extensive cost-of-living crisis. Food bank (…) Read more
Study group: peer-to-peer advocacy and absorbing outrage
To gather evidence for a United Nations review of the UK’s human rights compliance, ATD Fourth World is running a (…) Read more
We’re Giving Poverty A Voice!
Design kindly created by Megan Easton Why are food and energy prices going up? What are the hoops other people (…) Read more
‘You hear a child like me and you don’t hear me at all’
Above, Aurelia Drayak, Tiegan Boyens and Kaydence Drayak address the United Nations via Zoom. Following a written contribution in December, on the (…) Read more
Telling the UN about ‘the hell that is child protection’
Above at left, Patricia Bailey speaks to the United Nations via Zoom from the office of Amnesty International. Following a written contribution (…) Read more