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Into 2010, The European Year Against Poverty
Tuesday 1 December 2009 The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), with TSEN & LVSTC, held this event to look at the upcoming European Year Against Poverty and consider how the energy behind this can be harnessed to enhance anti-poverty work in London next year. The programme is below, with downloadable presentations and documents where available: Opening Welcome & Plenary: Tackling Poverty Today looking at the shape of policies and poverty in London The Right Honourable Stephen Timms Member of Parliament, Bharat Mehta Chief Executive, City Parochial Foundation Jean Lambert Member of the European Parliament Joyce Macmillan Follow-on Plenary: Voices From The Ground Up presentations of local action to promote social inclusion Finding the Voice, Migrants Resource Centre Myth Busting: Need not Greed!, Community Links 4 in10, End Child Poverty London Enabling Access & Tackling Exclusion, Leonard Cheshire Disability Afternoon Plenary: Making It Happen looking into The European Year and getting ideas together Elspeth Darby EY2010 Department for Work & Pensions Pauline Geoghegan European Anti-Poverty Network (Brussels) Katherine Duffy UK Social Policy Task Force The ideas that arose from the buzz session will be collated and reported here shortly.
Event handouts
Event links View interviews from the day at http://www.youtube.com/user/NEEDNOTGREEDCAMPAIGN and read a blog report on the day at http://chainreactiononline.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/into-2010-the-european-year-against-poverty/
For more information If you would like to hear more about the event, or about the forthcoming European Year Against Poverty, please get in touch with us at LVSTC.
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