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social exclusion

October 12, 2019

UN Special Rapporteur calls for a rights-based approach to suicide prevention

Suicide prevention must address structural factors and examine how distress arises within power imbalances, says UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health.
April 2, 2019

Children growing up in poverty 'endure hunger and shame'

Children in low-income families are going hungry and are being exposed to feelings of shame and social exclusion because of lack of money and food, new research from UCL, published by Child Poverty Action Group shows.
May 8, 2018

Save the Children statement on the proposed EU Budget

Save the Children calls on the EU to be more ambitious for children in Europe, with priority given to combatting child poverty.
December 30, 2015

Church of Scotland grant will support disadvantaged children

The Church of Scotland's social care arm CrossReach has secured a grant for £258,000 which will enable it to continue supporting some of the most vulnerable, disadvantaged children in society.
June 20, 2014

Is harshness to sick, disabled and poor people increasing ‘welfare’ costs?

Successive UK governments have made it harder for people in need to get social security, at a devastating human cost. Public services have also been cut, supposedly to save money. Might this have ended up costing taxpayers more?
September 29, 2013

Kirk anti-poverty work wins European award

The Priority Areas Committee of the Church of Scotland has won the European Anti-Poverty Network Award for their work against poverty and social exclusion.
December 13, 2012

Cutting benefits is unfair and does not make economic sense

Ruth Lister, who is a peer, emeritus professor of social policy at Loughborough University and chair of the Compass management committee, has written a fine, short piece for the Guardian on benefits and uprating.
May 4, 2012

Recession and welfare reform hits Northern Ireland hard says new report

People in Northern Ireland are caught between the impact of the recession and a programme of austerity and welfare reform, according to new research published on 2 May.
August 16, 2011

We must engage with those who feel they have no stake

I returned last Friday from a week more or less out of reach of TV, radio and electronic communications to what feels like another country: A country convulsed by anger, outrage and anguish. A country in which the ‘old certainties’ of even ten days ago, now seem past their sell by date.
September 24, 2010

Recession fuels poverty and unemployment harder in Scotland

A new report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows that Scotland’s unemployment rate is back to 1996 levels.