Campaigns:  Guarantee our Essentials

Siobhán is part of a campaign from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell Trust calling for an Essentials Guarantee within Universal Credit.  The Essentials Guarantee would embed in the social security system a principle that at a minimum Universal Credit should protect people from going without essentials.

You can read more about the campaign here:

https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/guarantee-our-essentials

 

Campaigns:  Coalition of Carers

Siobhán continues to attend regular meetings of the Coalition of Carers which is chaired by Carers NI.  The Coalition is made up of a number of organisations all working to highlight the key issues that unpaid carers are facing across Northern Ireland.

 

Campaigns:  Cliff Edge

Siobhán continues to attend meetings of the Cliff Edge Coalition Working Group which is working to strengthen the existing mitigations package for Northern Ireland.

Cliff Edge are delighted to see the scrapping of the two-child limit which has had bigger impacts in Northern Ireland due to larger family sizes here.  This has been the result of years of campaigning on this issue and the Cliff Edge Coalition are pleased to finally see one of its key campaigning asks achieved.

The Cliff Edge Coalition are currently working to update their strengthening asks to include a new ask around Unpaid Carers.  The Coalition will be publishing their updated asks over the coming weeks.