Month: May 2023

                       “People are quantified based on the immigration system and where you are slotted in. Those seeking asylum are at the bottom, there are the Lords, the Masters and the Slaves, no matter how they try and cover things up to make it seem attractive, until this serfdom that those seeking…

This blog reports on the work that was carried out by a group of the Poverty and Inequality Commission’s Experts by Experience Panel on the four main topics of the Scottish Government’s ‘Adult Disability Payment: Review of the mobility component’ consultation. The Panel have noted its concerns previously about…

On Wednesday 3 May, the Commission attended the First Minister’s anti-poverty summit in Edinburgh. The cross-party summit was organised by the Scottish Government, and included representation from Scotland’s political parties, campaigners, public and private sector leaders, and people with lived experience of poverty. At the summit the Commission was represented…