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RESOURCES INDEX - TAP is very grateful to academics and other professionals who made their knowledge about the dire UK housing & incomes policies available at our seminars

4 November 2019

SEMINAR "SOCIAL DEATH - THE IMPACT OF AUSTERITY AND POVERTY

A seminar on 1st May, 6-8pm, Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster. Our purpose is to place on record well sourced and tragic impacts of austerity and poverty. Chair: Debbie Abrahams MP

Dr Faiza Shaheen spoke about the gender, racial and class impacts of austerity and poverty.

You can listen to it all on the video

21:44 Chris Grover, "understanding austerity as structural violence and social murder"
36:5 7 Faiza Shaheen, the race, class and gender impacts .
48:38 David Taylor-Robinson from the University of Liverpool."Child health unraveling in the UK"
1:07:42 Danny Dorling, "Beyond reasonable doubt - the deaths and the blame"

The PowerPoint presentations

Professor Danny Dorling -

"Beyond reasonable doubt - the deaths and the blame".

Dr Chris Grover -

"Understanding austerity as structural violence and social murder".

Professor David Taylor-Robinson

"Child health unravelling in the UK"

TAP published ten blogs about causes effects and solutions to the housing crisis

by Danny Dorling, Fred Harrison, Stephen Hill MRICS and Alison Gelder INDEX

TAP published nine blogs about health inequalities in Britain

by, Angela Donkin, Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, Carl Walker and Maddy Power INDEX

MISSING MORALITY

TAP was asked to contribute to the "Fabian Society Poverty and social security: where next? series" . It was published on the 15th February and calls for "National policy for social security must be rebuilt on moral foundations. Peace is not only the absence of conflict, it is the presence of health and well being for all."

APPG ON HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES

Our submission to the APPG on Health in All Policies, Chaired by Debbie Abrahams MP, enquiry into actual impacts of the Welfare Reform and Work Act (WR&WA) 2016 is available on the TAP website. Call for evidence up to 4th March. We address two issues which have been worsened by the 2016 Act;

⦁ The worthlessness of the adult JSA/UC

⦁ Homeless families in temporary accommodation. The misery of insecure tenures often long term.