1 / 10

WOMEN ROUGH SLEEPERS PROJECT WORKSHOP 23rd April 2012

WOMEN ROUGH SLEEPERS PROJECT WORKSHOP 23rd April 2012. PARTNERS:. University of Wolverhampton (lead partner) Professor Kate Moss & Paramjit Singh

belle
Download Presentation

WOMEN ROUGH SLEEPERS PROJECT WORKSHOP 23rd April 2012

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. WOMEN ROUGH SLEEPERS PROJECTWORKSHOP23rd April 2012

  2. PARTNERS: • University of Wolverhampton (lead partner) Professor Kate Moss & Paramjit Singh • West Midlands European Centre – Brussels, responsible for network development, website, monthly newsletter, meetings with key European networks press releases etc… • Spain – the Andalusian Government Department for Equality and Social Welfare, based in Seville • Sweden – the Central Administration of Social Services in Malmo • Hungary – the Regional Social Welfare Resource Centre in Budapest

  3. Development of a website to support network development and to assist with the implementation of a network hub designed to further the development of work in this field • Please take a look at the Women Rough Sleepers website: www.womenroughsleepers.eu • Follow us on Twitter: @WRoughSleepers

  4. Partner Meetings: • Wolverhampton UK, March 2011 • Seville Spain, September 2011 • Budapest Hungary, January 2012 • Malmo Sweden, June 2012 • Brussels – Meetings with Policy Makers, November/December 2012 • 24th October 2012 Conference at Walsall College Conference Centre

  5. UK: • Good provision of various types across the W. Midlands • Impact of cuts to charity and local government funding • Moves to the competitive tendering process • Difficult to access services and WRS impacting the research • Need for further interviews & development of the network

  6. Spain: • 16 agencies dealing with WRS in Seville • Lack of resources & social exclusion of women • Reluctance to discuss DV / IPV • Homelessness a bigger factor for families / immigrants • 70% of resources provided by the church

  7. Sweden: • December 2011 PM announced 50 million euros to be spent on DV • 8 million euros of government funding pa has been allocated to homelessness • Good networks no problem with access • Economic issues are a factor • Four national surveys but difficult to compare the findings • Latest carried out May 2011 with findings announced January 2012 • Complex problem: The total numbers are going up, but fewer sleep rough • Proportions of homeless women and foreign-born persons are also going up as wider groups of the population are kept outside the ordinary housing-market.

  8. Hungary: • 30,000 seeking shelter in public places; 50% in Budapest • The Hungarian Social Act – 2 types of homeless person • Current political strategy of persecution • In April 2011, The City of Budapest voted for a proposal to ban rough sleeping in all its forms. • Majority of homeless women are victims of violence • Recent legislation April 2011 voted for a proposal to criminalise RS, using public places to sleep. You can be fined for this arrested or put in prison. They did this recently to a journalist who was resting on a bench. • The plight of the homeless in Budapest is of deep concern to the Women Rough Sleepers partnership following the announcement by the Budapest Mayor that homelessness is now a criminal offence Criminalisation of poverty and social exclusion in a country suffering severe economic hardship goes against European social values and we urge the Budapest authorities to repeal this decision.

  9. Europe: • February 2012 our WMES Sophie Laine attended the ALDE Seminar on ‘EU Citizenship, Homelessness and EU Free Movement’ • Comments from the Chair, Mr. Niccolo Rinaldi MEP, ALDE (Liberals/Italian) • Ms. Heather Roy, Secretary General, Eurodiaconia • Mr. Freek Spinnewijn, Director, FEANTSA • Mr. Ionut Sasu, DG Employment, European Commission

  10. Next steps: • To complete our interviews • Analysis and comparison of all interviews from all four partner countries • Write up the findings in the final report to the European Commission How you can assist us: • Interviews • Joining the WRS network

More Related