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Annual Seminar to mark United Nations International Day For the Eradication of Poverty. Re-Examining the Welfare State
Monday 17 October 2005
Monday 17 October 2005
7pm
9pm
Grosvenor House- 5 Glengall Street- Belfast BT1 2D
Free of charge
Conference
Event Programme
Seminar : Re-Examining the Welfare State
In partnership with UNISON
7.00pm Registration – tea & coffee
7.20 Introduction - Frances Dowds – Director NIAPN
7.30 Opening drama – The Welfare State – S. Shanahan
7.40 A Personal Testimony
7.50 Michael Lavalette - Senior Lecturer in Social Policy University of Liverpool ‘The origins of the Welfare State, where it came from and why we need to work to strengthen it’
8.10 Patricia Mc Keown – Regional Secretary Unison - The local context, from the Welfare State to privatisation and Health in Northern Ireland
8.30 Questions and Answers
9.00 End
For more information contact Patricia at NIAPN on 
0845 120 3771 
info@niapn.org
Michael Lavalette biography:
Born in Scotland and educated at the universities of Glasgow and Paisley. His PhD was on child labour in Britain and he continues to research child labour across the globe. He teaches across a range of sociology and social policy courses and researches and writes on child labour, popular protests, and Marxism and welfare theory. Michael works on aspects of popular protest and collective action. He has written extensively on Children, Social Policy and the State, Welfare Theory, Anti-Racism and Social Welfare as well as on the anti-poll tax movement and the Liverpool dock strike. Last year he wrote a major book 'Rethinking Welfare' that argued for the defence of state welfare provision and against marketisation of service delivery.
Patricia McKeown biography:
Regional Secretary of UNISON. She is the current chair of the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Vice President of ICTU. Patricia is a lead campaigner for Equality and Human Rights and for the past 17 years has led her union’s campaign against privatisation of the public services, particularly health care.
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