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Campaigns: Coalition of Carers

Siobhán has joined the Coalition of Carers which is chaired by Carers NI and continues to attend regular meetings of the Coalition.  The Coalition is made up of a number of organisations all working to highlight the key issues that carers…
Stormont parliament buildings with a pair of giant scissors in the foreground.

Campaigns: NI Child Payment

Siobhán continues to the meet with the working group for the Northern Ireland Child Payment Coalition.  The introduction of a NI Child Payment was a recommendation by the Gender Equality and Anti-Poverty Expert Panels and in the Feminist Recovery…
An Essential Guarantee

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…
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Consultation on a Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls and Foundational Action Plan

The Executive Office (TEO) have issued a consultation to seek views on the new Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls and Foundational Action Plan. This is a draft seven-year Strategic Framework to End Violence Against…
Consultation Response

Have Your Say: Department of Education Budget EQIA

Following the Secretary of State’s Budget 2023-24 the Department of Education has issued a consultation on its Budget 2023-24 Equality Impact Assessment.  This EQIA outlines a series of proposed cuts to the Department’s Budget including…
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Have your say: Discretionary Support

The Department for Communities (DfC) have issued an Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) on Discretionary Support.  This is an important consultation as Consortium research with women over a number of years has highlighted the importance of Discretionary…
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Healthy Start Scheme Awareness Raising

Following the launch of the research on Women’s Experiences of the Cost-of-Living Crisis, Siobhán is working with Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick and Dr Alexandra Chapman from Ulster University (who co-wrote the research paper) on a small project to…
Women’s Regional Consortium members attending the launch of the research

RESEARCH LAUNCHED – The Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis on Women in Northern Ireland

The Consortium’s latest research paper with the Ulster University Law Clinic was launched in Ulster University on 20th June.  The launch included a summary of the main points in the research as well as a number of personal insights from the…
Malala Yousafzai: "we cannot all succeed when half of us are held back"

Women and Education: we cannot all succeed when half of us are held back

Women are a hard demographic of learners to access for a reason, because they have very little free time to do anything for themselves and gaining access to mainstream Education & Training has never been easy for women.  There have always…
Stormont parliament buildings with a pair of giant scissors in the foreground.

Stormont cuts pose a serious threat to women’s and girls’ abilities to participate fully in the areas of education, training, and work

We are currently facing unprecedented cuts to each Executive Department which will result in incredibly harmful impacts, disproportionately impacting on the equality of women and other protected groups. Women’s place in education, training…

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