🚨Exciting news for Joseph Rowntree Foundation and our work in Northern Ireland.🚨

Following PivotalPPF report we are going to establish a team in Northern Ireland.

Crucially it will be tasked with collaborating with organisations already doing so much locally.
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jrf.org.uk/political-mind…

📢 OPEN CALL Improving job quality to tackle in-work poverty in Scotland

We are live - our new open call invites applications for projects with potential to deliver 'big change that lasts' on in-work poverty in Scotland.

therobertsontrust.org.uk/news-and-blogs…

👶 Women are still doing more unpaid childcare work than men. But the gap narrowed last year.

We all need help juggling care with work through:

💷 Practical paid leave

🕓 Flexible working policies

Tackling child poverty seems to consistently be a commitment in Scotland which is positive, but what are the actions needed to really shift the dial to reach our targets? It's an important measure for children now, and for future proofing our communities.

Applications for the second year of our bursary programme with Joseph Rowntree Foundation
are now open

Five women journalists will each be awarded £1,500 to develop a project shining a light on economic and / or social inequalities around Scotland

Apply here: bit.ly/4bnXOdK

Can a museum exhibition contribute to science? Yes!!!! More than 12,000 people visited our exhibition, Endometriosis: Into the Unknown. Visitors were invited to contribute data to a pain scale. Thousands of responses were made throughout the exhibition...

Panel of housing experts thinks you Must Read our Joseph Rowntree Foundation report:

'Bringing private homes into social ownership can rewire the housing system'

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jrf.org.uk/housing/bringi…

URGENT - No Evictions Network

For those in PERTH we have also been told Home Office are at the hotel - could be STATION HOTEL or QUEENS HOTEL.

Please attend & update if you can.

Urgent 🚨 Home Office raid is ongoing at Denmilne Street NOW…

No Evictions Network *URGENT*

We've just had a call that a Home Office deportation raid is ongoing at Denmilne Street NOW.

Anyone nearby?

We can resist the latest push from the Home Office. Advice for asylum seekers; please share 👇

More than 60 children a week are being strip-searched by police with Black, Asian or mixed race kids being ‘more likely to be targeted'. Even in the months after ‘Child Q’ where a 15yo was strip-searched on her period, thousands more kids were searched
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Brilliant work from colleagues in Scotland on how to redesign the childcare system.

Universal childcare is the goal but low income households must be first in line - unlike the English system where the poorest face disproportionate costs or are locked out all together.

I wish I could make a joke about how they would probably be late and scam people for not checking in online and probably land them million of miles away from where they are supposed to be but all I can feel is acute disappointment and sadness at this