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Annual Policy Conference 2024

Managing Change to Build a Just Society - Policy Outcomes for a New Social Contract.

Join Social Justice Ireland online, Wednesday 13th November between 9.30 am and 12 noon to hear from experts setting out what needs to be done to build a just society using our policy framework for a New Social Contract. 

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    Social Justice Ireland is an independent social justice think tank.

    We provide independent social analysis and evidence-based policy proposals, with the aim of creating a sustainable future for every member of society and for societies as a whole. In all of this, we focus on human rights and the common good.
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Ensuring Equal Access to Justice for All

Monday, 14 October 2024
access to legal aid

The 2023 FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) Annual Report highlights the importance of ensuring access to justice, with transformative outcomes in pivotal areas of law, policy reform, and public legal assistance. FLAC continues to provide vital services through telephone lines, legal advice clinics, and specialised programs, such as those assisting the Roma and Traveller communities. FLAC's Telephone Information and Referral Line responded to over 12,000 queries, with family and employment law making up nearly half of the requests. This service exemplifies the significant unmet legal needs in Ireland, particularly as 52,000 calls went unanswered due to resource limitations.

FLAC's preventative work remained crucial in 2023, with 3…

Overview of Homelessness in Europe: Key Insights from the 2024 Report by FEANTSA and Fondation Abbé Pierre

Monday, 7 October 2024
cover of Overview of Homelessness in Europe: Key Insights from the 2024 Report by FEANTSA and Fondation Abbé Pierre

Budget leaves Ireland’s more vulnerable households condemned to prolonged hardship

Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Left Behind

Unemployment Blackspots - Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Monday, 30 September 2024
Long-term unemployed

Living Wage 2025: A Fairer Future for Workers

Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Living Wage 24/25

Proposals for a Child Poverty Budget

Monday, 23 September 2024
Investment in children

Our long-standing failure as a society to adequately engage with the issue of child poverty, and drive substantial and permanent reductions in it, is building long-term problems.  If Government…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

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Trees & autumn leavess

“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”

Alexander Pope

A Decade of Income Tax Cuts have Favoured the Better Off

Thursday, 19 September 2024
Fair taxation

Wealth taxes in Ireland

Monday, 16 September 2024
Fair taxation

Budget 2025 should focus on generating revenue, not cutting taxes

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Tax Budget

Budget 2025 should avoid using taxation measures as a means of providing short term solutions to the ongoing cost-of-living challenges that all of society continues to face. Reductions in income…

Creating a New Social Contract for the Just Transition

Thursday, 5 September 2024
Just Transition

Eurofound have released a new report, 'Creating a New Social Contract for the Just Transition: Is Partnership Working?' which dives deep into the evolving landscape of employment, social dialogue…

Budget 2025 must focus on building resilience rather than the upwards redistribution of resources

Monday, 2 September 2024
budget 4

Targeted support and coordination needed to deliver Better Work agenda

Monday, 26 August 2024
labour force graphic

Accurate Measurement is Essential for Addressing Social Housing Needs

Thursday, 22 August 2024
20 per cent social housing target

Resourcing schools to address educational disadvantage

Monday, 19 August 2024
education