Sentences with phrase «poverty action group»

It is also endorsed by Action for Children, Article 39, Coram Baaf, Child Poverty Action Group, Family Rights Group, Grandparents Plus, Kinship Carers Project, Kinship Carers UK, Kinship «Foster Carers» Group, Just for Kids Law, Mentor UK, Nagalro, Pace, Pact, Siblings Together, Together Trust.

It is also endorsed by Coram Baaf, Child Poverty Action Group, Family Rights Group, Just for Kids Law, Mentor UK, Pace, Pause, Together Trust, 17th February 2017

Richard Drabble QC, James Maurici and Richard Turney (instructed by the Child Poverty Action Group / Public Law Project) for the interveners.

He is a solicitor and has been director of the Legal Action Group, JUSTICE and West Hampstead Community Law Centre as well as director of policy and legal education at the Law Society, London, and solicitor to the Child Poverty Action Group.

Delivering judgment in Child Poverty Action Group v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2010] UKSC 54, Lord Brown said it was «common ground» that overpayment resulting from misrepresentation or non-disclosure could be recovered under s 71.

The availability of protective costs orders (PCOs) in judicial review proceedings has, since first considered in R v Lord Chancellor ex p Child Poverty Action Group [1999] 1 WLR (CPAG), become an important part of the judiciary's response to such concerns.

The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has launched judicial review proceedings over proposals to cut housing benefit for private sector tenants on 1 April 2011.

The principles guiding these types of orders were established by Mr Justice Dyson (as he then was) in the pre-CPR case of R v Lord Chancellor ex parte Child Poverty Action Group [1998] 2 All ER 755.

Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, said nine children in every classroom of 30 now fall below the official poverty line, and called for free school meals to be available to all pupils, regardless of income.

A poll of 900 National Education Union members by the Child Poverty Action Group found that 60 per cent of staff believe all eligible children in their school are getting the free meals they are entitled to, while 21 per cent think some are not.

Schools where over 40 % of pupils are eligible for free meals will lose most, say National Union of Teachers and Child Poverty Action Group researchers.

The NEU is proud to be a member of the End Child Poverty campaign and also works closely with the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).

However, research by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the charity Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) shows that primary schools with more than 40 per cent of children on free school meals will on average lose # 473 per pupil.

More than 40 % of young people in 25 constituencies now live below the poverty line according to The Child Poverty Action Group.

The joint survey by the NEU and the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) also reveals the extent to which schools are stepping in to fill the gaps left by the cuts to statutory services and voluntary and community organisations.

The state funded Child Poverty Action Group was also quick off the mark once Mr Osborne had sat down.

The Child Poverty Action Group points out that countries with non-means-tested support for children tend to have low rates of child poverty.

Labour's Yvonne Fovargue says that the Child Poverty Action Group have described this as a poverty - producing bill.

That promise was reversed on Tuesday, saving the government about # 1bn a year and prompting Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, to claim «Britain's poorest families have been abandoned today and left to face the worst».

Ahead of the figures being published, the Child Poverty Action Group accused ministers of pursuing a «failing» approach.

«The prime minister spoke about injustice on entering Downing Street, but there is no greater burning injustice than children being forced into poverty as a result of government policy,» said the Child Poverty Action Group's chief executive, Alison Garnham.

The Child Poverty Action Group was happy about an announcement on free school meals.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, is proud to sponsor Child Poverty Action Group's (CPAG) 50th anniversary lecture, which has been held today in Westminster.

Alison Garnham, Chief Executive, Child Poverty Action Group, said: «I wish to applaud NASUWT's efforts to draw attention to what is happening with children in poverty.

Alison Garnham, Chief Executive, Child Poverty Action Group, said: «Policies to address child poverty and address issues children are experiencing in school should not be seen as a cost, but as a saving.»

Also addressing the fringe meeting were: Nick Gibb, Schools Minister and Alison Garnham, Chief Executive of the Child Poverty Action Group.

Commenting on the figures, Kate Green, chief executive of the child poverty action group, said: «Ministers can not take a holiday from their promise to end child poverty, or this is what happens.

The 13 years presided over by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown saw a «broad - based approach» that was «significant and long - lasting», the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) concluded back in 2012.

I was running the Child Poverty Action Group when I read it, and kept noticing parallels between the anti-slavery campaign and many modern campaigns.

In response to the Labour party's proposals on childcare, Alison Garnham, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: «This proposal is great news for hard - pressed families struggling with the cost of childcare.

To hit interim targets of halving child poverty by 2010 the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) estimates the government must spend an additional # 4 billion on tax credits and benefits.

Chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group, Kate Green, said investing to prevent child poverty was one of the best forms of fiscal stimulus.

The Child Poverty Action Group is also behind the plan, with chief executive Alison Garnham declaring that «the evidence on the benefits for children of extending school meals is very strong».

«There is now great concern that claimants will fail to receive the level of employment support promised,» said Kate Green, chief executive of Child Poverty Action group.

The Child Poverty Action Group has found that there are currently 3.6 million children living in poverty today — 27 per cent of all children in the UK.

Child Poverty Action Group is holding a conference for local authorities today in Birmingham (18 July 2013).

In response to Ed Miliband's party conference speech, Alison Garnham, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: «Ed Miliband's conference speech is a welcome political response to the cost of living crisis engulfing more and more families with children.

Child Poverty Action Group has today published estimates of the costs to the economy and government generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in the UK.

[26] At the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Group.

When Labour's Kate Green asked her first question to Cameron he began his answer by praising her «incredible work» as head of the Child Poverty Action Group...

Kate Green, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group: «In a recession, you have to do right by children.

He was a Director of the Child Poverty Action Group 1969 — 79, and of the Low Pay Unit (a body that campaigned to ensure wages councils protected the rights of workers in certain industries) during 1974 — 80.

According to a Child Poverty Action Group survey child benefit for your first boy or girl covered 14 per cent of the cost of raising a child.

The Child Poverty Action Group says this cruel rule is going to push more than 250,000 additional children into poverty by the end of the decade.

New analysis for Child Poverty Action Group by Landman Economics has found that an increase of 600,000 children in absolute child poverty is likely between 2010 and 2015.

Responding to Walking the Breadline, a new report published today on UK food poverty by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty, the Head of Policy for Child Poverty Action Group, Imran Hussain, said:

«In the case Child Poverty Action Group represented, it was clearly not possible for a child with spina bifida and another with Down Syndrome to share a bedroom together with such different demands and needs.

Imran Hussain, the Head of Policy for Child Poverty Action Group, responds to Walking the Breadline, a new report published today on UK food poverty by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty...

[23, summary] Imran Hussain Head of Policy, Rights & Advocacy Child Poverty Action Group 94 White Lion Street London N1 9PF (Main: 020 7837 7979 ü http://www.cpag.org.uk

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