Archives for June 4th, 2004

REPORT DETAILS ‘HUGE BILL’ FOR EMERGENCY HOUSING

Headlines, PublicNet: 4 June, 2004

A report published today details what it calls “the huge bill” being met by the taxpayer to fund the record numbers of homeless families in emergency housing. The homeless charity Shelter has based “Living in Limbo, on a survey of more than 400 homeless households living in temporary accommodation in England. It estimates that temporary housing is costing over half a billion pounds a year.The report shows the impact of homelessness on their health, education and job opportunites. Two thirds of those surveyed said their children had problems at school with the average child missing 55 school days a year. A majority of those questioned said their own or their family’s health had suffered and nearly half described their children as ‘often unhappy or depressed’. The findings also show that more than half of people in the survey had been waiting in temporary accommodation for an offer of permanent housing for more than a year.

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COUNCILS FACE CALLS TO IMPROVE RECYCLING

Headlines, PublicNet: 4 June, 2004

Councils across the country are being urged today to improve recycling facilities. The calls comes from Friends of the Earth but the group is warning that recycling targets cannot be met without more central government funding.Campaigners are sending messages to their local authorities in recyclable plastic bottles in time for World Environment Day tomorrow demanding urgent improvement to tackle the growing problem of waste. Only one in four households in England, Wales and Northern Ireland currently receives a “best practice” recycling service, with national recycling levels put at 14.5 per cent, well short of the Government’s target of 25 per cent by 2005.

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GETTING PEOPLE IN POVERTY INVOLVED IN POVERTY RESEARCH

Features, PublicNet: 4 June, 2004

By Fran Bennett with Moraene Roberts Giving people in poverty a voice in poverty research can significantly affect the outcome and resulting policy interventions. The authors give an overview of ways of moving away from the supplier of information approach to using the expertise of the people involved. They also explore the major challenge of finding ways of feeding the participatory approach into national level processes and of engaging with topical policy debates.

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