Consultation Seminars dates and venues

Details of the half-day consultation seminars are

As part of these seminars workshops on the following themes were held:

Depending on numbers that attended and the demand for individual workshops not all of these themes were covered at every regional seminar.

Workshops

1. Income Supports                      

2. Housing                                        

3. Health and Care                       

4. Education                                     

5. Employment and training        

6. Rural and urban responses

7. Other Policy areas: sports, culture, legal services, transport      

8. Cross-cutting issue: gender 

These workshops explored the above Policy themes as they impact on the various vulnerable groups identified in the National Action Plan against Poverty and Social Exclusion 2003 -2005, which are

Women, Children and young people, Older People, People with Disabilities, Travellers, Prisioners and ex-prisioners, and areas of Urban poverty and rural disadvantage. Also listed as "Areas of special attention"

are Gender and Migrants and Ethnic Minorities

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