Welfare and Poverty

Action Aid

 

British Association of Social Workers

 

Cafod

Catholic Agency on Overseas Development

Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?

 

CAVA: Care, Values and the Future of Welfare Research Programme

University of Leeds

Centre for Comparative Research in Social Welfare

University of Stirling

Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy

EU site based in Luxembourg

Centre for Research in Social Policy

Loughborough University

Centre for the Macroeconomic Analysis of Public Policy

 

Centrepoint

UK charity working with homeless people

Charity Commission

 

Commons Select Committee on Work and Pensions

 

Community Care UK

Social care resource

Community Service Volunteers

Large voluntary organisation – worth a look if you want to work in the care sector but haven’t got any experience

Corporate Watch UK

 

CROP (international poverty - comparative research programme)

 

Dartington Social Research Unit

 

Department for Work and Pensions

The former Department of Social Security (DSS), Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS)

Directory for Social Change

 

Do-it.org

 

Homelessness in the UK

Impressive resource on the subject

Institute for Human Service Technology

Southampton University

Institute for Research on Poverty

 

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

 

Low Pay Commission

Source of lots of information on poverty and low pay

National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux

Particularly good issues of poverty and debt

National Centre for Volunteering

 

New Deal

Government site aimed at helping vulnerable groups to get into work (e.g. long term unemployed, single parents etc)

New Policy Institute

 

One World Action

 

Oxfam

Campaign on poverty in the UK as well as internationally

Policy Press

University of Bristol

Poverty and Social Exclusion

 

Prince's Trust

Self-help charity for young people

Research Group on the Study of Care, Values and the Future of Welfare

Leeds University

Resource Information Service

 

Shelter

UK homelessness charity

Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC)

 

Social Policy Association

 

Social Security Advisory Committee

 

Society Guardian

Good starting point for research into social issues

Sure Start Scheme

Government scheme to help children from deprived backgrounds

Voluntary Service Overseas

Large UK based charity sending professionally qualified volunteers around the world

War On Want

 

World Development Movement

Anti globalisation/anti poverty campaign group