4th Annual Convention of the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion Extreme poverty

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4th Annual Convention of the European Platform
against Poverty and Social ExclusionExtreme
poverty poor mental healthA new deal to
develop the social observatory

• 1 What do we understand when we speak on poverty
  and extreme poverty?
• usually the academic european mesure is based
  on 60 or 40 of median income (but the files
  are not integrating the isolated poor people,
  homeless, people living in institutions)
• then conditions of living (9 items in the
  European SILC), but is it pertinent ?
• then a mixture of indicators
• But the ground organisations see more and more
  people living in extreme poverty, that means that
  the  thermometer  is not sufficient.
• jeanpierre.bultez_at_gmail.com (EAPN France et
  ONPES)

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4th Annual Convention of the European Platform
against Poverty and Social ExclusionExtreme
poverty poor mental healthA new deal to
develop the social observatory

• 2- The use of Reference Budgets to adapt our
  views on poverty
• the ONPES (National Observatory in France)
  decides 3 years ago a survey based on citizens,
  in consensus groups, to decide what do they need
  to live in dignity and to participate in society
• it gives a new way to mesure who are the
  deprived persons and families
• it is a survey which helps to understand how the
   public services  are necessary for some basic
  social services (local transport, social
  housing, school, health system)
• People having less that the reference budget
  (monetary evaluation) must reduce their
  consomptions, they have no choice for
  alternative solutions and often suffer from
  loneliness and isolation a way to be excluded!
  It gives a  halo  of people living with
  deprivations, alternative solutions and other
  arrangements (usually bad housing solutions).
• jeanpierre.bultez_at_gmail.com (EAPN France et
  ONPES)

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4th Annual Convention of the European Platform
against Poverty and Social ExclusionExtreme
poverty poor mental healthA new deal to
develop the social observatory

• 3- The people living  invisible  in the
  society
• the statistical public systems doesnt not take
  into account all the social situations
• the opinions are not awarded on some situations
• exemples homeless people, people suffering
  from handicaps, people having mental
  difficulties, .
• WE HAVE to implement new ways to develop the
  social observatory, to better organise the links
  between material poverty, health problems,
  stigmatisations, isolation
• jeanpierre.bultez_at_gmail.com (EAPN France et
  ONPES)