SWAN Ireland in a new national SWAN venture established in 2012.

SWAN Ireland statement on the recent cuts to the Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Allowance

02/03/2013

The Social Work Action Network (Ireland) strongly condemns the Irish government’s recent decision to stop the crucial Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant schemes. This sudden decision was made on foot of a two year warning the Ombudsman Emily Reilly had given the government. She had advised the government that the schemes as they stood were in breach of equality legislation as they weren’t available to people over 66 years of age.

SWAN Ireland Winter Bulletin 2012

The SWAN Ireland winter bulletin 2012 is now available to download. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to this edition of the bulletin. The amount of hard work and effort that has gone into establishing SWAN Ireland in the past few months is fantastic and exciting to see. We hope that 2013 will bring even more radical social workers, social care workers etc out in force!

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Activist Research Workshop, July 14th 2012

Notes on ‘activist research: workshop on collective research for social change’

On Saturday, July 14th one of the SWAN Ireland members attended an activist research workshop.

What follows is an outline of the day written by the facilitator, Mick O Broin.

A link to the original article is at the end of the piece.

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