The Right to Family Life
Interview with a policy maker: ‘More about preserving families than separating families’
Mike Arsham (above, centre) is the director of advocacy at New York City Administration for Children’s Services. In 2004-05, while (…) Read more
Amnesty declares that poverty in the UK is a violation of human rights
‘Forced adoptions are horrendous.’ This is the title of an interview with ATD activist Patricia Bailey, featured in the Summer (…) Read more
Understanding parent-to-parent 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
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
‘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
The impact of poverty in social care
On the 9th of February, Research in Practice hosted their yearly Adults Partnership Conference titled ‘The impact of poverty in (…) Read more
Telling the United Nations about rights abuses in children’s social care
Above: In December, members of BEAM from East Anglia visited ATD’s centre in London to contribute to this submission to (…) Read more
Youth voices tell the United Nations about their experience of social care
Above from left: Tiegan, Kaydence, Eva, and Lyle discussing their submission to the United Nations. The End Child Poverty Coalition (…) Read more