Policy & Strategy
SICAP report calls for bottom-up approach to evaluation
A new report on the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) was published earlier this year. Here, Allen Meagher covers the main points.
Policy & Strategy
Could social inclusion consultations have been simple tokenism?
At SIF 2019, feedback from community representatives seened to ask one big question: was consultation on the new social inclusion strategy all a sham?
Policy & Strategy
Community workers share experiences at SICAP consultations
At a series of consultations that sought frontline views of SICAP, case studies and stories gave us a detailed picture.
Policy & Strategy
New caps on moneylending could end exorbitant interest rates
As laws come into effect to cap moneylending rates, Olive McCarthy and Noreen Byrne of the University College Cork (UCC) Centre for Co-operative Studies explain why they support it.
Policy & Strategy
The Secret Librarian: “What kind of society do we want?”
As a raft of new services are announced for Ireland’s libraries, we ask our Secret Librarian for their take on the upcoming changes.
Policy & Strategy
330 libraries to become ‘community hubs’ under new strategy
As Minister Michael Ring launches the new library strategy, we learn more about what the library of the future might look like.
Inclusion
NEW RESOURCE: POBAL MAPS
- Social inclusion mapping now a reality
With the click of a mouse, you can now view levels of deprivation in your area under a...
