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Know someone in crisis? We’re here to help. At PBIC, we offer support to those facing hardship, from housing assistance to welfare advice and more. 🩵 Share this with someone who might need it – we’re here to listen, guide, and support. 👉 Read more about how we can help: https://lnkd.in/eMF5HmjA

Revenues from the #extractive sector play a vital role in funding national development and public projects. By leveraging #data, governments and stakeholders are better equipped to mobilise revenues for public welfare. Learn more in our 2023 Progress Report: https://lnkd.in/e-mpy3UA

⏩ In this Social Policy & Administration article, Professor Kevin Farnsworth and Professor Zoë Irving draw on various data sources to challenge the idea of welfare state resilience in the face of past and contemporary forms of crises. They argue that pessimist realism is more productive than welfare optimism in seeking the renewal of welfare guarantees. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/ev-4HRWe #YorkResearch

Data shows that while strides have been made in delivering education, housing and welfare benefits to a wider share of society, South Africa has yet to overcome the legacy of apartheid and deliver a better life for all https://reut.rs/4e4Aown

Featured resource: 'Australia cares' report. Launched in 2022 by Sydney Policy Lab, 'Australia Cares' is a project formed out of dialogues with public policy experts, care recipients and practitioners aiming to 'radically transform' Australia's systems, practices, and cultures of care. This report makes clear that it is not a welfare reform project, but an initiative that aims to challenge the ways we live and organise our communities. In short, the project believes that the narrow, short-term, gendered and individualist thinking that has shaped our care system must be replaced with something better. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gGQ_yeYD

Did you know, we are changing the name of our Almoners to Welfare Volunteers. Read more about the name change in our press release, https://lnkd.in/eYKMHkr or if you are interested in becoming a Welfare Volunteer, you can find out more on our website. https://lnkd.in/eWjyVKjD #GetInvolved #VolunteersWeek

In 2023/24 Citizens Advice Caerphilly Blaenau Gwent helped 10,190 people from Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent to resolve 69,363 problems. Year-on-year, welfare benefits and debt problems continued to be the top 2 issues facing those we help. Find out more about how we helped people locally and nationally in 2023/24 by reading our annual report https://ow.ly/wscf50UbZPb

Young people will lose their benefits if they refuse to take up work and training opportunities, Liz Kendall has confirmed ahead of announcing measures to cut the welfare bill. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eFup8GYB #UKPolitics #Benefits #UKNews #WorkandPensions

Upcoming elections in South Africa are very interesting. Like its neighbour Zimbabwe it threw off oppressive white rule predicated systems but fortunes are just as bad for blacks in either country as before black majority rule. In South Africa whites earn 3.5 times more. Prospects are not entirely bleak in South Africa; it is wealthier than Egypt and Algeria for instance and does not suffer the apocalyptic civil wars of Sudan or Somalia. With the right governance South Africa can reach its potential.

For measurement of social inclusion, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has developed a set of questions for surveys. This set has 10 simple questions which for a social inclusion scale. This scale is not published in the EC website. 👇 https://lnkd.in/dPhWm2rQ #SocialInclusion