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Blog

Welcome to the Poverty and Inequality Commission’s blog. On the blog we’ll share news and views from the Commission but we’ll also be inviting other organisations and individuals to blog about their experiences and the work that they’re doing to tackle poverty and inequality. Views expressed in blog posts don’t necessarily reflect the views of the Commission.

Hearing from people with lived experience of poverty

We have commissioned Poverty Alliance and the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIRU) to develop guidance for us on how we can involve people with direct lived experience of poverty in our work.…

Dignity and respect in public services

Here we report on work the previous Commission completed on what people with direct lived experience of poverty had to say about public services and being treated with dignity and respect.…

Child Rights and Child Poverty

Written by Professor Morag Treanor with input from Juliet Harris of Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) Today is Universal Children’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The UNCRC is a charter comprising 42 articles that…

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