News
A year on Afghans still living in hotels
As 15th August marks one year since the fall of Kabul, an estimated 12,000 Afghan families are still living in UK hotels awaiting resettlement.They were brought here because they and their family to a...
Published on 10/08/2022
Cost of living payment inadequate to help the millions struggling
The St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) whose members and staff witness the deprivation and suffering caused by poverty every day in the course of their work, say the government’s £326 cost of this to...
Published on 15/07/2022
Stop ‘Inhuman’ Rwanda Flights
The SVP is reiterating its opposition to the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the Society applauds the ruling from the European Court of Human Rights to halt the first the to...
Published on 16/06/2022
Digital poverty risks losing a generation’s talents
Like food, warmth and safety, education is a basic need. It has the power to lift an individual out of poverty, to empower, to build self-esteem, and to open doors to a whole new world It’s vital. a...
Published on 12/05/2022
Dark day for human rights and humanity, says SVP
The St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) has described the passing of the government’s Nationality and Borders Bill into law with no amendments as a “dark day for human rights and humanity.”The been...
Published on 28/04/2022