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Campaigns Update January 2025

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…
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Upcoming Consultations

Review of Free School Meals and Uniform Grant Eligibility Criteria Closing Friday 14th February 2025 Find out more here. Consultation launched on Gender Pay Gap Information Regulations Closing Friday 14th February 2025 Find out…
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Draft Budget 2025-26 Consultation

The Department of Finance has issued a consultation on the draft budget for 2025-26.  The Draft 2025/26 Budget sets out the proposed funding for all the different Government departments for the financial year.  The NI Executive is encouraging…
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Consultation on a new Fuel Poverty Strategy for Northern Ireland

The Department for Communities is consulting on a new Fuel Poverty Strategy for Northern Ireland.  The draft Fuel Poverty Strategy proposes a framework for addressing fuel poverty and its impacts. Fuel poverty is the inability of a household…
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Consultation on policy changes to the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Scheme

The Department for Communities is consulting about policy changes to the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Scheme, to limit the annual Winter Fuel Payment in Northern Ireland to pensioners in receipt of Pension Credit or other means tested benefits. The…
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Holiday Hunger Survey

Sinn Féin have launched a Private Members Bill on Holiday Hunger.  This Private Members’ Bill (PMB) is about legislating to provide direct support to children and young people entitled to free school meals and their families throughout school…
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Consultation on funding for the Employment Support Scheme

The Department for Communities has launched a consultation on funding for the Employment Support Scheme.  It is seeking views on the potential equality implications arising from a proposal to cease funding for the Employment Support Scheme.…
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Consultation launched on Gender Pay Gap Information Regulations

A consultation on proposed changes relating to the requirements for employers to publish information on the pay of male and female employees has been launched by the Department for Communities.  These requirements show whether there are differences…
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Review of Free School Meals and Uniform Grant Eligibility Criteria

The Department of Education has launched a consultation on the options considered as part of the review of the eligibility criteria for free school meals and uniform grants.  This consultation looks at a number of options and has modelled the…
Women’s Regional Consortium members attending Women, Skills & Barriers to Work research launch: Alex Brennan, WomensTEC, Paula McAliskey, NIRWN, Anne McVicker, WRDA, Siobhán Harding & Karen Sweeney, Women’s Support Network and Heather Lindsay, TWN

NEW RESEARCH – Women, Skills & Barriers to Work

The Women’s Regional Consortium’s latest research paper Women, Skills & Barriers to Work was launched in Shankill Shared Women’s Centre in December 2024. The research contains the results of 10 focus group sessions and questionnaire…

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