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Migration
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News from Caritas
Secours Catholique hosting asylum seekers in new building in Calais
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Community Development
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Migration
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Poverty
Cardinal Nichols: Caring for seafarers ‘profoundly Christian’
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Homelessness
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News from Members
Caritas Anchor House praised as ‘safe haven’ on World Homeless Day
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Severe and Multiple Disadvantage
CSAN welcomes DWP announcement to stop re-testing chronically ill and disabled benefit claimants

CSAN welcomes the Government's decision to scrap reassessments of people with disabilities for Employment Support Allowance.

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Criminal Justice
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Migration
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News from CSAN
CSAN highlights under-reporting of hate crime against members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities

CSAN has submitted evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on hate crime incidents affecting people who identify as Gypsy, Roma or Traveller.

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Poverty
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Supported Housing
CSAN responds to DWP announcement to defer Local Housing Allowance cap

CSAN responds to the news that capping of the Local Housing Allowance will be deferred until 2019/20 for those living in specialist accommodation.

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Children and Families
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Criminal Justice
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News from Members
Cambridge University study highlights benefits of family workers in prisons

Pact has announced findings from an independent evaluation of its Family Engagement Service (FES).

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Migration
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News from CSAN
CSAN voices concern over proposed border wall at Calais

CSAN (Caritas Social Action Network) is deeply concerned by the proposal to build a wall near the Calais refugee camp. We recognise the right of states to secure their borders […]

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News from CSAN
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Older People
Seminar: Ageing in an Inclusive Society

CSAN is committed to improving the lives of older people living in the UK and that was the driving motivation for hosting our first ever “Ageing in an Inclusive Society” […]

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Migration
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Prayer
CAFOD, CSAN and JRS Year of Mercy, refugee actions
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Catholic Social Teaching
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Community Development
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Poverty
Solidarity is the solution to poverty

Responding to the strategy to solve poverty published by think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Philip McCarthy, Chief Executive of CSAN said: “We welcome JRF’s call for a “new consensus […]

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