Office for Social Inclusion
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2024-03-26T14:44:42ZSocial inclusion report: incorporating annual reports for 2009 and 2010
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/296939
Social inclusion report: incorporating annual reports for 2009 and 2010
Department of Social Protection
The National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 2007 to 2016 (NAPinclusion), was launched in February 2007. It sets out a wide ranging and comprehensive programme of action to tackle poverty and social exclusion. It uses a lifecycle approach which places the individual at the centre of policy development and delivery by assessing the risks facing him or her and the supports available at key stages of the lifecycle. The lifecycle stages are children, people of working age, older people and people with disabilities. There is also a chapter on communities.
The NAPinclusion provides a strategic framework to facilitate greater co-ordination and integration of structures across Government. It sets out a wide-ranging and comprehensive programme of action to assist those who continue to be socially excluded from the living standards and opportunities that the majority enjoy. The plan contains a series of high level goals and targets aimed at making a decisive impact on poverty. They focus on:
• Ensuring that children reach their full potential;
• Supporting working age people and people with disabilities, through activation measures and the provision of services to increase employment and participation;
• Providing the type of supports that enable older people to maintain a comfortable and high-quality standard of living;
• Building viable and sustainable communities, improving the lives of people living in disadvantaged areas and building social capital.
The overall goal of the NAPinclusion is to reduce the number of those experiencing consistent poverty1 to between 2% and 4% by 2012, with the aim of eliminating it by 2016, from a baseline rate of 7% in 2005. The NAPinclusion prioritises 12 high level goals and identifies some 150 targets across all policy areas, which are at the core of the strategic approach, aimed at making a decisive impact on poverty and building a more inclusive society over the coming years.
2012-01-01T00:00:00ZSocial Inclusion Forum: conference report
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/296896
Social Inclusion Forum: conference report
Department of Social Protection
The Social Inclusion Forum (SIF) was established by the government as part of the structures to monitor and evaluate Ireland’s National Action Plan for Social Inclusion (NAPinclusion) 2007- 2016. The Social Inclusion Division of the Department of Social Protection has been given the responsibility by the government to convene the Social Inclusion Forum, which is a key element of the government’s commitment to consult with all relevant stakeholders, including people experiencing poverty and the groups that represent them in the fight against poverty and social exclusion. The Forum provides an opportunity for engagement between officials from government departments, community and voluntary organisations and people experiencing poverty in relation to the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion. The 2011 Forum was organised by the Social Inclusion Division in partnership with the Community Worker’s Co-operative (CWC) and the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland (EAPN).
The purpose of the annual Social Inclusion Forum is to provide organisations and individuals, primarily within the community and voluntary sector, with the opportunity to:
Input their views on key policies and implementation issues;
Identify barriers and constraints to progress and how best these can be tackled; and
Provide suggestions and proposals for new developments and more effective policies in the future.
The themes for discussion at the 2011 Forum were (1) the review of the National Poverty Target and (2) responding to the social impact of the economic crisis.
This report provides a summary of the eight meeting of the Forum which took place on Wednesday 9th November at the F2 Centre, 3 Reuben Plaza Rialto, Dublin 8. It includes a summary of the main points raised by guest speakers, the discussions in five parallel workshops and the questions and issues raised. In addition, seven overarching recommendations are highlighted for the attention of policy makers. This report will be submitted to the Senior Official’s Group on Social Policy and laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas.
2012-01-01T00:00:00ZPersistent at-risk-of-poverty in Ireland: an analysis of the survey on income and living conditions 2005-2008
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/251792
Persistent at-risk-of-poverty in Ireland: an analysis of the survey on income and living conditions 2005-2008
Maître, Bertrand; Russell, Helen; Watson, Dorothy
Poverty is a multi-faceted phenomenon, influenced by a wide range of socio-economic
processes, and the characteristics of a population identified as poor can be quite
heterogeneous. Poverty is also an ongoing process rather than a static position. These
features of poverty represent a real challenge to policy makers in any attempt to identify
the most appropriate and efficient policy responses. Individual and household poverty
is very often measured at one point in time. This is the approach which is taken with
cross-sectional analysis of poverty. While cross-sectional analysis of poverty is extremely
important, it still constitutes a snapshot of a situation at a precise point of time. By
excluding the time dimension, this approach limits our understanding of poverty since it
cannot assess the duration of poverty, transitions into and out of poverty, nor the effect
of people’s previous experience of poverty and the influential role it plays on current
(and future) poverty outcomes. Also, a cross-sectional approach to poverty does not
distinguish those who are poor on a once-off basis, due to specific circumstances, from
those who are in poverty for a longer period of time for more profound and entrenched
reasons. Each of these would clearly require different policy responses.
2011-11-01T00:00:00ZSocial Inclusion Report No. 2: Understanding childhood deprivation in Ireland
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/251557
Social Inclusion Report No. 2: Understanding childhood deprivation in Ireland
Watson, Dorothy; Maître, Bertrand; Whelan, Christopher T.
In Ireland, as in many European countries, the rate of poverty and deprivation is higher for children than it is for adults. This is important, not only because of a concern with the well-being of children but also because childhood deprivation can have long-term negative consequences that persist into adulthood. This report examines childhood deprivation in Ireland in 2009 in the context of this concern for the current well-being of children and their future prospects.
There are two further policy issues that form a background to this study. The first is the concern that household level measures of poverty and deprivation may not adequately identify children who are socially excluded because of a lack of resources. The second context is the widespread acknowledgement that social exclusion is multidimensional and that addressing social exclusion will require an approach that goes beyond a focus on income alone.
The goal of this report is to address five questions:
1. How much child-specific deprivation is there in Ireland and what form does it take?
2. What are the main risk factors for child-specific deprivation?
3. How well do the national measures of basic deprivation and consistent poverty identify children who are deprived?
4. How do the risk factors for child-specific deprivation differ from the risk factors for basic household-level deprivation?
5. What are the implications for policy?
2012-11-09T00:00:00ZConstructing a food poverty indicator for Ireland using the survey on income and living conditions
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/251573
Constructing a food poverty indicator for Ireland using the survey on income and living conditions
Carney, Caroline; Maître, Bertrand
The aim of this research is to explore the possibility of developing a food poverty
indicator in Ireland using the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC).
The specific objectives of this research are to:
create an indicator to provide a measurement of food poverty
identify the characteristics of the population experiencing food poverty
analyse the association between food poverty and health outcomes
identify risk factors for food poverty.
2012-01-01T00:00:00ZA social portrait of older people in Ireland
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/143184
A social portrait of older people in Ireland
Office for Social Inclusion; Fahey, Tony; Maitre, Bertrand; Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Christopher T.
This report aims to bring together some facts
and figures about older people in Ireland today,
drawing on a range of statistical sources
and studies. It provides both a snapshot of
the current situation and some discussion of
recent trends and prospects for the future.
The information will be particularly useful when
developing policies that affect older people, such
as the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion
(NAPinclusion) and policy on pensions.
We start the report by describing the main trends
in numbers of older people and their importance
in the overall population. We then go on to look
at the following topics:
the households in which older people live;
their socio-economic circumstances including
income and material wellbeing;
their housing and neighbourhood
environment;
their health and social contact; and
prospects for the future and data gaps.
2007-02-01T00:00:00ZA social portrait of communities in Ireland
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/143183
A social portrait of communities in Ireland
Office for Social Inclusion; Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand
This is the fourth report in the series of social portraits of the lifecycle
of groups as set out in the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion,
2007 – 2016. In this report we aim to make key facts and figures about
several particularly vulnerable groups in Ireland in an accessible way.
These groups are:
•people living in areas of urban
and rural disadvantage;
•migrants and ethnic minorities;
• the Traveller community; and
• the homeless.
This information is particularly relevant to policy, including the National
Action Plan for Social Inclusion (NAPinclusion).
Some of the NAPinclusion’s aims are to:
•build viable and sustainable communities; and
• to improve the lives of those people living in
areas or situations of poverty.
These groups face a particularly high risk of poverty and exclusion and
it is difficult to gather the information to draw accurate social portraits
of them. This report will show that the features of these groups mean
that getting a reliable picture of them through conventional information
sources, such as household surveys, is very difficult.
2008-11-01T00:00:00ZNational action plan for social inclusion 2007-2016
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/143236
National action plan for social inclusion 2007-2016
Office for Social Inclusion
The commitments set out in this Plan are
ambitious and challenging. The new strategic
framework will facilitate greater co-ordination and
integration of structures and procedures across
Government at national and local levels, as well as
improved reporting and monitoring mechanisms.
The National Action Plan for Social Inclusion
(NAPinclusion) has been prepared in a different
context to the original 1997 National Anti-Poverty
Strategy. Income support targets (social welfare
rates and pensions) have now been achieved
and, in line with the National Economic and Social
Council (NESC) report on the Developmental
Welfare State, there is greater emphasis on
services and activation as a means of tackling
social exclusion. This is reflected in the nature
of the Plan, which complements the NDP 2007-
2013 and Towards 2016.
2007-02-01T00:00:00ZSocial Inclusion Division Department of Social and Family Affairs strategic plan 2009 - 2011
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/143182
Social Inclusion Division Department of Social and Family Affairs strategic plan 2009 - 2011
Social Inclusion Division, Department of Social and Family Affairs
A core overall aim of Government is to systematically reduce poverty,
with the aim of eliminating consistent poverty by 2016. Related aims are
to reduce social exclusion and promote greater social inclusion and social
cohesion. Among its functions the Department of Social and Family
Affairs is tasked with formulating appropriate social protection and social
inclusion policies and with working with other Departments and agencies
in the delivery of Government polices and objectives.
The role of the Division, positioned within the Department, is to support
and facilitate the strategic process at national and international levels in
working to achieve these aims. The Division was formed from the
integration of the Combat Poverty Agency and the Office for Social
Inclusion within the Department with effect from July 2009 and this new
strengthened Division will make the best use of the considerable
experience and expertise of the staff of both bodies. This is the first
strategic plan of the new Division
2009-10-01T00:00:00ZAn plean gníomhaíochta náisiúnta um chuimsiú sóisialta 2007-2016
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/143235
An plean gníomhaíochta náisiúnta um chuimsiú sóisialta 2007-2016
Office for Social Inclusion
Tá an Rialtas tiománta stráitéis chomhtháite um chuimsiú sóisialta ar bhonn cur
chuige slite beatha atá leagtha amach sa chomhaontú comhpháirtíochta náisiúnta I
dTreo 2016. Comhlánaíonn na gnéithe chuimsiú sóisialta an Plean Forbartha
Náisiúnta, an Plean Gníomhaíochta Náisiúnta um Chuimsiu Sóisialta (cuimsitheacht
PGN): Leagtar amach sa “Athrú Mór ar Éirinn — Caighdeán Beatha Níos Fearr do
Chách, 2007-2013” conas a bhainfar an stráitéis um chuimsiú sóisialta thar an
tréimhse ama 2007-2016.
Is uaillmhianach agus dúshlánach na tiomantasí atá leagtha amach sa Phlean seo.
Cabhraíonn an creat stráitéiseach nua níos mó comhoibriú agus imeasctha structúirí
agus nósanna trí an Rialtas ag léibhéíl náisiúnta agus áitiúla chomh maith le tuarascáil
níos fearr agus na meicníochtaí monatóireachta.
Ullmhaíodh an PGUS i gcomhtéacs difriúil ón Stráitéis Frith-Bochtanas Náisiúnta
1997 bunaidh. Baineadh na spriocanna tacaíochta ioncaim (rátaí leasa sóisialta agus
pinseanna) amach anois agus tá níos mó béim ann anois ar seirbhísí agus ghníomhacht
mar modh ghreamú eisiamh sóisialta. Léirítear sa saghas cineál an Plean, cé a
chomhlánionn an PFN 2007-2013 agus I dTreo 2016.
Tá focás laidir ar gníomhaíochtaí agus spriocanna ag an Plean, cé atá sainmhínithe
agus measartha go soléir. Is tabhachtach iad má dhéantar monatóireach ar na
gcuspóirí an Plean a bhaint amach agus an chun chinn iad a bhaint amach go
héifeachtachtúil. Trí an chur chuige saolré a ghlacadh, tugann an Plean tacaíocht ar
fhobairt dul chun chinn níos cheangailte agus ildisciplíneach le haghaidh polasaithe a
dhéanamh agus le rannaíochtaí comhordaithe ó réimse leathan aisteoirí.
2011-02-01T00:00:00Z