March 2025
The Poverty and Inequality Commission has published its Strategic Plan for 2025 to 2027.
This Strategic Plan sets out the Commission’s mission, and the vision and principles that will guide our work over the next three years. It has been developed with our Experts by Experience Panel.
The Plan also gives three Strategic Priorities for the Commission’s work, these are:
- Strategic Priority 1: Policy-making – We will work to ensure that reducing poverty and inequality is central to policy-making in Scotland, and that policy-making addresses the structural causes of poverty and inequality.
- Strategic Priority 2: Child Poverty – We will keep the focus on Scotland’s 2030 child poverty targets, by advising on actions to be included in the 2026-2031 child poverty delivery plan, scrutinising progress, and challenging where more is needed to meet the targets.
- Strategic Priority 3: Implementation – We will encourage a focus on implementation of policies and actions, promoting use of data and evidence to inform delivery and understand impact.
Download: Poverty and Inequality Commission Strategic Plan 2025-2027 (pdf, 1.7 mb)