Campaigns & Surveys

The Children’s Commissioner is calling for evidence for a family review on all aspects of modern family life, and how families understand themselves to look at how families can best be supported, with a particular focus on children’s perspectives on family life.

DfE are consulting on their SEND review. The consultation closes on the 1st July.

Marsha de Cordova MP has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) 1126 calling for fundamental reform of WCA and PIP assessment in the forthcoming White Paper and to guarantee disabled and seriously unwell people receive the social security they need to live on and cover the additional costs of their disability or condition.

Z2K have been working with Marsha de Cordova on this as part of their #PeopleBeforeProcess campaign and have now launched a write to your MP action to encourage as many MPs as possible to sign the EDM.

They are asking that as many people as possible share the action with their networks and on social media.

Here is the link to Z2K’s launch tweet – please do share: https://twitter.com/Z2K_trust/status/1509160982714667009

DfE are running a survey on changes to the eligibility criteria for the free early education entitlement for disadvantaged 2-year-olds from households who have no recourse to public funds. Closes on 20th May.

The Fawcett Society are running a campaign of letter writing to MP’s to ask them to support the Newlove Amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, making misogyny a hate crime. This would mean that crimes committed against women because they are women would be recorded and treated as a hate crime.

Magic Breakfast are looking for Youth Campaigners aged 14 to 20 who care about child hunger. They will receive training and support to design and lead creative campaigns in support of school breakfast legislation and issues related to child hunger.

Praxis along with the No Recourse to Public Funds Action Group are focusing on campaigning for free school meals with the following calls: Getting the government to permanently extend free school meals to some groups on No Recourse to Public Funds (currently this extension is only temporary and under review). And then calling for free school meals regardless of immigration status. Links to the campaign are on Praxis social media channels on Facebook and Twitter.

Just Fair and the Equality Trust are asking for support for their 1 for equality campaign urging the Government to put in place the Socio-Economic Duty by commencing Section 1 of the Equality Act. Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 introduces a socio-economic duty on public bodies that requires them: ‘when making decisions of a strategic nature about how to exercise its functions’ to ‘have due regard to the desirability of exercising them in a way that is designed to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage.’

The Small Charities Coalition (SCC) is  closing down. They have created a questionnaire for both members and non-members of the coalition to tell them what you have valued most about SCC and where  it could have gone further to support and champion small charities. Questionnaire closes on 7th February

Quaker Social Action’s Down to Earth, funeral costs helpline supports people on low incomes who struggle with funeral costs. They help navigate quotations from funeral directors, claims from the DWP and Social Security Scotland, and grant applications to charities. They are running a survey for anyone who has arranged a funeral in the last three years to help them improve the

The project is urgently looking for families living in temporary accommodation for their research into the effect of the pandemic on those families. They are also interested in hearing from professionals who have been supporting families in TA.

Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants are asking supporters to complete a survey to help them plan future work.

London Travel Watch are calling on people to urgently contact their MP’s to ask them to write to the Transport Secretary and the Mayor of London, requesting that they come together to find a solution to TfL’s current funding gap. Funding for Transport for London hangs in the balance, with significant cuts to services on the horizon if they don’t get the funding they need from Government when their current deal runs out on December 11^th. TfL said that they may be forced to make 18% cuts to bus routes and 9% cuts to the underground, and halt planned walking and cycling schemes. We are particularly worried about cuts to the bus because so many lower income Londoners rely on it to get to work and education.

Citizens Advice is asking the Government to take urgent action to ensure that workers are treated fairly and safely during this unprecedented crisis. Without urgent government action, the jobs crisis risks being faced unequally. This will affect people who have historically faced higher barriers in finding suitable work. Citizens Advice is calling on government to:

• Put emergency funding into existing enforcement bodies, to ensure people are treated fairly and safely by employers during this unprecedented crisis.

• Fast-track its plan for setting up a Single Enforcement Body. People need a single point of access where they can go and expect to have their rights enforced.

The Home Office are trying to better understand the needs of migrant victims of domestic abuse with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) and are asking all organisations working in this space to complete a 10 minute survey. Any questions, please email Lucy Makinson

Every child in care should be guaranteed care up to the age of 18 but new government legislation will leave thousands of children without care every year.

New legislation will ban councils from putting children aged 15 or younger in unregulated accommodation such as bedsits, flats and shared housing.

But, ministers say 16 and 17 year-olds don’t need this protection and they can manage in accommodation where they don’t receive any care. This decision has let down thousands of children and is a serious blow to the many organisations and care experienced people who have been campaigning for better regulation. Please sign the petition.

Inclusion London are collecting evidence on how the government complies with the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People. Closing 22nd  November.

London Plus have a short survey to gain insight into the demand for social prescribing services in London. Please help  by taking part if you are an organisation involved in social prescribing.

Calling for signatures to a petition demanding that Free School Meals should be available to all families on Universal Credit.

Refugees Welcome demonstration outside Parliament on 20th October to make our voices heard against the Nationality and Borders Bill and to show support for young refugees and asylum seekers. Meeting point will be at the Nelson Mandela statue. and they will be there from 4pm for a 4.30 start.  Any questions please contact Ryshel.

A survey on the new probation model. This survey aims to specifically understand the impact of the commissioning model on the ability of voluntary organisations to engage with the new probation programme.

Independent Review of children’s social care has been published. The researchers now want feedback on the Case for Change and the questions it poses. They have published a workforce engagement plan and have updated their engagement plans for people with lived experience of children’s social care. More information about these opportunities and the review itself is available on the website.

Calling for signatures to a petition demanding sick pay for all workers without a minimum earnings threshold.

EVENS aims to address the equality data gaps. To take part in EVENS, you need to be aged 18 or over and identify as from an ethnic or religious minority group. If you are eligible, you will be sent a link to fill in the survey, or you can take part over the phone

National Youth Agency are running a National Youth Sector Census and want to hear from all organisations and groups who deliver or support youth services and out of school activities.

Z2K are asking people to write to their MP demanding the promised publication of the consultation on disability benefits, including proposals to reform the assessment processes.

University of Southampton is looking for parents (with at least one child aged 16 or under) who may be interested in taking part in a one-to-one research discussion about the way that information on families is collected and used by government and services. To take part or for more information please email.

Redbridge Council are seeking the views of women and girls living, working, and/or travelling in the borough so that they can understand what steps are needed to take to ensure they feel safe.  Share your views by completing an online survey.

Contact have launched a petition demanding access to Covid vaccine for disabled and vulnerable children.

End Child Poverty Coalition of which 4in10 is a member, is publishing new data giving levels of local child poverty data for every constituency and Local Authority in the UK on 19^th May. If you are working with families and young people with lived experience who might be interested in speaking to the media to help get the message out about this new data please let us know.

Unity Project are holding ‘listening sessions’ with people living with NRPF and are keen to hear directly from anyone willing to share their stories and to talk about what would make the most positive difference for them. If you have families interested in taking part please contact Mary at Unity.

Shelter are asking for signatures on a petition to  government to ensure the new Renters Reform Bill scraps unfair Section 21 evictions and creates a landlord to end the uncertainty of private renting.