The Minister for Communities Deirdre Hargey has appointed an Independent Advisory Panel to complete the Welfare Mitigation Review. The panel, which NIRWN Director Louise Coyle sits on, has been asked to recommend mitigations to the social security benefit system in Northern Ireland. The work of a previous panel led to the social sector size criteria/bedroom […]
Siobhán continues to work as part of the Working Group for the Cliff Edge Coalition on extending and strengthening the welfare mitigations package in Northern Ireland. Following the announcement of the extension of the existing mitigations legislation for Northern Ireland for 3 years the working group are continuing to monitor the progress of the legislation […]
Siobhán has completed an online response and a written response on behalf of the Consortium to the Committee for the Economy’s consultation on the Domestic Abuse (Safe Leave) Bill. The Consortium’s response welcomed the proposals for introducing paid safe leave and the need for this to be a day one right. While the Consortium supported […]
The NI Executive is now consulting on a Draft Budget for 2022 – 2025. The consultation questions have been designed to seek views and comments on the key matters contained within the Draft Budget. They are broken into three areas. Funding Our Budget: Should we in Northern Ireland raise more money for public services. If so, how? […]
The Department of Justice has issued two Calls for Views on issues to help inform the content, themes and overall direction of a new Domestic and Sexual Abuse strategy and a Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy. On the Equally Safe Strategy, a Strategy to tackle Violence Against Women and Girls, this is intended to […]
The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland are consulting on their Corporate Plan for 2022-2025. The draft plan sets out five strategic priorities to guide their work for this period of time. The five areas are: Working for a stronger legal and policy framework for equality Using powers to combat discrimination and promote equality of opportunity […]
Following the Consortium’s response to the Call for Evidence on a new Housing Supply Strategy for Northern Ireland the Department for Communities has now launched a public consultation entitled “Housing Supply Strategy: 2022-2037.” Siobhán has started work on preparing a Consortium response to this consultation which will include evidence and input from local women gathered […]
Siobhán has now completed five in-person focus group sessions and one online focus group session across Northern Ireland gathering information and evidence on the debts women have, why they need to borrow and the impact of the pandemic, rising food and energy costs and welfare reform on their debts. Siobhán is continuing to work on […]
January 2022 Scheme Funder Note Date National Allotment Gardens Trust Award National Allotment Gardens Trust Application deadline 1 Jan 2022 R V W Trust R V W Trust General application deadline 2 Jan 2022 Wolfson Foundation: Heritage, Humanities & the Arts Wolfson Foundation Round 1: Stage Application Deadline 5 Jan 2022 Wolfson Foundation: Health & […]
This is an excerpt from WRDA Briefing on TEO Engagement with the Women’s Sector and TEO Covid-19 Recovery Plan The rural impact assessment for TEO’s Recovery Plan makes no reference to rural women or the need to take targeted action to address the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on this group. The two main interventions […]
