Blog Posts

Coronavirus response must include digital access connect us all.

The APLE Collective have a blog post featured on the JRF website, describing the impact of digital exclusion of low-income communities. Crossing the digital divide is essential to ensuring that the response to COVID-19 includes us all, say the Addressing Poverty with Lived Experience (APLE) Collective. For the APLE Collective, digital exclusion means exclusion from voice, from an ability to participate in the everyday. It means being silenced. It means our knowledge is ignored, which Read more…

By aplecollective, ago

Expertise by Experience is essential to getting the COVD-19 response right.

We are in unprecedented times, all that we have previously felt to be ‘normal’ has changed. COVID-19, the global pandemic, has resulted so far in fundamental changes to the way that we live our lives. Now more than ever, we need to remind ourselves of the values we hold dear; of compassion and justice. We are in unprecedented times and the new government has an unprecedented task.  We need to rise to the challenge of Read more…

By aplecollective, ago

Speaking to Power: Global Protest to Fight Inequality (ATD Fourth World)

On 18 January 2020, Patricia Bailey spoke on behalf of ATD Fourth World and the APLE Collective at the “Speaking to Power” global protest organised by the Equality Trust in Whitehall, London. Good afternoon. I am Patricia Bailey from ATD Fourth World, a human-rights based anti-poverty organisation with more than fifty years experience of tackling inequality and promoting social justice in the UK. Working in partnership with people affected by poverty, ATD Fourth World has, since 1968, concentrated Read more…

By aplecollective, ago

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