
ATD Fourth World UK
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A human rights-based organisation. Join us as we work to find solutions to overcome poverty in the UK
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"Under the current housing crisis, five thousand pounds could well mean the difference between keeping a roof over your head or not." christopher burns Chris Burns writes for the APLE Collective. aplecollective.com/2024/11/has-re…

We have just heard that the Scottish Govt plan to scrap the cruel two child limit. This is amazing news for Scottish families living in poverty, as a result of this policy. We now call on Liz Kendall and Department for Work and Pensions to do this same across the UK bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8xj…


Please join us on 30 January at 5:30 pm for the launch of this powerful new book by Keetie Roelen of The Open University. The event will be in dialogue with SarahPCorbett, founder of the CraftivistCollective Collective. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-empathy-…?

We are proud that ATD Fourth World UK has made a new submission to the United Nations about compliance by GOV.UK with economic and social rights. This submission highlights abuses in children’s social care atd-uk.org/2025/01/14/upd… With Dr. Simon Haworth of Uni of Birmingham and Koldo Casla of Human Rights Centre

In parallel, Youth Voices have made their own excellent new submission, in partnership with the End Child Poverty Coalition, as well as Teen Advocacy Ginger Adoptee and Francesca Crozier-Roche - atd-uk.org/2025/01/14/you…

All #familycourt judges who take children from mums to give them to violent fathers must be named, shamed & held publicly accountable. This has been a key demand of our family court pickets since 2017 so we're celebrating this massive victory. Well done Hannah Summers Louise Tickle

Finally, recognition that poverty is not neglect, as tammy mayes of ATD Fourth World UK and PFAN has been saying for years!! #FamiliesBelongTogether


Yesterday I spoke at a webinar by ATD Fourth World UK 'Keeping the Promise of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development by Achieving Legal Identity for All' part of CSocD63.I spoke about legal identity and the losses or changes of it as an adoptee and how that's impacted me

Screen printing with the Poverty2Solutions team today, brand new designs in preparation for our launch event coming up Thrive Teesside ATD Fourth World UK #DoYourDutyForEquality


In the constructive dialogue with the UN CESCR, last week the UK Government Admitted Failure in the Handling of the Separation of Children from Families in Poverty. 🇬🇧 An issue raised by Human Rights Centre with GRIPP - @grippuk.bsky.social ATD Fourth World UK cc University of Essex hrcessex.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/the…


Child poverty has reached a new high, with 4.5 million children in poverty in the year to April 2024, last week's DWP statistics show. This is an increase of 100,000 from the previous year. We stand together with End Child Poverty to call for an end to the rise in child poverty.


This weekend marks the 8th year the two-child limit on benefit payments has been in place. 1 child every 13 mins falls into poverty because of this policy. The govt must scrap it in the upcoming Child Poverty Strategy End Child Poverty

This weekend marks the 8th year the two-child limit to benefit payments has been in place. 1 child every 13 mins falls into poverty because of this policy. The govt must scrap it in the upcoming Child Poverty Strategy. End Child Poverty


Today, together with End Child Poverty, we are handing in a letter to Rachel Reeves - it has been 8 years since the two-child limit was introduced. A policy which pulls 109 kids into poverty every day – it’s time for it to be scrapped.


Today we joined Child Poverty Action Group and End Child Poverty outside the treasury to mark a miserable milestone. By this weekend, 30,000 extra children will have been pushed into poverty thanks to the two-child limit since the Labour Government came into power in July 2024. 1/2


I am very excited to announce that on 30 October Lutterworth Press will be publishing Joyful Revolution: Poverty, Social Justice and the Story of Mary Rabagliati! Pre-orders can be made at: lutterworth.com/product/joyful…