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Education resource

More or Less Equal? Geography resources for ages 11-16

11/01/2016

25 documents

Languages: English, Welsh

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Bring your geography lessons to life by exploring how inequality and poverty affect the lives of young people in different parts of the world, including the UK. Created in partnership with Young Lives and with the support of subject associations, More or Less Equal? has separate sessions in Geography, Maths and English which can be […]

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Evaluation report

Final Evaluation: Sanctuary in Wales project

27/10/2015

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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The Sanctuary in Wales Project delivered opportunities for women seeking sanctuary (asylum-seekers and refugees) in Wales between 2012 and 2015. Oxfam Cymru coordinated the three-year project in the four asylum dispersal areas of Wales, working in partnership with Oasis Cardiff in Cardiff, African Community Centre in Swansea, Displaced People in Action and Bethel Community Church […]

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Technical briefing

Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015-16: Oxfam’s written submission to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee, 21 September 2015

13/10/2015

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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The Welfare Reform and Work Bill currently proceeding through Parliament will make substantive changes to support for low-paid working people, with important consequences for poverty in the UK. The bill introduces a new overall benefit cap, freezes certain in-work benefits and repeals the current measures of child poverty. At the same time, it puts duties […]

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Research report

The Welsh Doughnut: A framework for environmental sustainability and social justice

09/03/2015

3 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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The world faces twin challenges: delivering a decent standard of living for everyone, while living within our environmental limits. These two interwoven concerns are captured in Oxfam’s Doughnut model, which offers a framework to create a safe and just space for humanity to exist within. At the national level, the Welsh Doughnut model suggests areas […]

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Research report

The UK Doughnut: A framework for environmental sustainability and social justice

19/02/2015

2 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English

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The world faces twin challenges: delivering a decent standard of living for everyone, while living within our environmental limits. These two concerns are brought together in Oxfam’s Doughnut model, which visualizes a space between planetary boundaries and a social floor where it is environmentally safe and socially just for humanity to exist. Here, The UK […]

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Research report

How Effective are Benefits Sanctions? An investigation into the effectiveness of the post-2012 sanctions regime for Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants

12/12/2014

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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This report looks at the application of sanctions in the UK social security system. Sanctions are defined as the reduction or withdrawal of benefits from claimants on the grounds that they have failed to observe the conditions attached to their benefit claim. Whilst successive Governments have increased use of sanctions in the system, the current […]

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Evaluation report

Policy Influence in Scotland: Evaluation of Beyond the Horizon

21/11/2014

3 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, randomly selected for review under the policy influence thematic area. This report documents the findings of a qualitative impact evaluation, carried out in February 2014 to assess the effectiveness of the ‘Beyond the Horizon’ project in Scotland. The ‘Beyond the Horizon’ project included […]

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Research report

Emergency Use Only: Understanding and reducing the use of food banks in the UK

19/11/2014

2 documents

120 pages long

Languages: English

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The use of emergency food aid in the UK, particularly in the form of food banks, has dramatically increased over the last decade. Research was jointly conducted by Oxfam, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), the Church of England and The Trussell Trust to examine why people are turning to food banks, how food bank use […]

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Research report

Below the Breadline: The relentless rise of food poverty in Britain

09/06/2014

1 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

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Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, it is also deeply unequal, and millions of families across the UK are living below the breadline. Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty have calculated that 20,247,042 meals were given to people in food poverty in 2013/14 by the three main food aid providers. […]

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Research report

Empowering British Bangladeshi Women Through Small Enterprise?

01/06/2014

1 documents

82 pages long

Languages: English

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Most British Bangladeshi women do not have paid work, and the multiple barriers they face to employment are largely unaddressed by mainstream policies, leading to social exclusion and poverty. This study reviews the viability of supporting British Bangladeshi women to transition to self-employment. Findings suggest that British Bangladeshi women have a keen interest in economic […]

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