News & Updates
How the Northolt Community Food Bank Is Helping Fight Hunger During the Cost of Living Crisis
Suchismita Majumdar, Communications & Policy Officer, ESDEG Ever since Ms. Ragini Patel started running a food bank on Friday mornings from the Viking Community Centre in Northolt where ESDEG operates from, my colleagues have been telling me about how brilliantly...
A Week of Blog Posts to Celebrate the London Challenge Poverty Week 2023
Suchismita Majumdar, Communications & Policy Officer, ESDEG London Challenge Poverty Week (LCPW) begins today and we at ESDEG feel this is a great opportunity to get together with 4in10 and the other charities to raise awareness about the reality of poverty at the...
Will Migrant Mothers Have a Place in Ealing’s
new Health & Wellbeing Strategy?
Suchismita MajumdarCommunications & Policy OfficerESDEG ESDEG welcomes Ealing Council’s New Health and Wellbeing Strategy which recently gotapproved. You can read in detail about this plan in this article in Around Ealing published on the24th of May, 2023. We...
Bridging the Digital Divide – How Accessible is the SEND Local Offer to Migrant Mothers?
Diagram credit Adamas University Suchismita Majumdar Communication & Policy Officer ESDEG Inclusivity is the new buzz word in the SEND system, but there is a lack of viewing SEND through an intersectionality[1] lens. This is particularly true for migrant families...
ESDEG joins Disabled Children’s partnership (DCP)
Education & Skills Development Group (ESDEG) is a proud member of the Disabled Children’s Partnership (DCP) – a growing coalition of more than 100 organisations – campaigning for improved health and social care for disabled children, young people and their...
Four Common SEND Misconceptions
ESDEG organised a focus group in the second week of November 2022 at the Viking Community Centre, Northolt where mothers gathered to share their experiences in accessing services, obtaining diagnosis and understanding the referral process to Carmelita House in Ealing...
Challenges Faced by Ethnic Minority Parents in Navigating the SEND System
In the second week of November 2022, ESDEG organised a focus group at the Viking Community Centre, Northolt for ethnic minority parents of children with SEND needs. The purpose was to listen to the experiences of these parents in accessing services, obtaining...
Supporting Ethnic Minorities in Northolt and Southall Through Cost of Living Crisis
This year London Challenge Poverty Week (17th to 23rd October) happened at the time when the country is in the grips of the worst cost of living crisis in the last forty years. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s UK Poverty profile (2022) over 14.5 million...
