V4CE response to the Queen’s speech
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/25/queens-speech-wordle-text
By Saqib Deshmukh, V4CE Development Officer
Whilst we applaud the long over due recognition of the position of Carers and new entitlements, we are concerned about key parts of the Queens Speech and the raft of new legislation that is being outlined.
Membership Spotlight: My Community UK
Every month we feature one of our members and ask them what their organisation is about and what they’ve been up to. This month we caught up with My Community UK and spoke to them about their work.
Tell us briefly, what does your organisation do?
We work with and for the vulnerable in society to improve the quality of life, services and future of all communities regardless of culture, ethnicity or faith. We have six strands of our work. The Elderly, Women, Youth, and Children, Poverty and Homelessness, Prisoners and Ex-Offenders and the Environment. Our head office is based in Manchester but we work across the UK.
Questioning Welfare Reform
Carolina Gottardo, Director of Latin American Women's Rights Service
I recently attended an interesting conference about the Advice sector in London, which included the participation of a representative from the Cabinet Office.
Multiple discrimination, invisibility and the pledge of Latin American women in the UK
Carolina Gottardo
As recent research commissioned by the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) and Trust for London confirms, the numbers of Latin Americans (LA) in the UK is significant. We are of similar size to the Polish and the Chinese communities in London. However we continue to be invisible to the mainstream.
Equality and justice? Only if you can afford them
With cuts to legal advice services, justice and equality are denied to those who can't afford them, argues Shantele from Cheshire, Halton and Warrington Race Equality Centre.