January 2022
The Poverty and Inequality Commission has published its advice to the Scottish Government on its Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022-26. The report tells Scottish Government that they will have to use all levers available to it to end child poverty and the actions that should be included in…
June 2021
The Poverty and Inequality Commission has written to the UK Government Home Secretary, Priti Patel MP, about the Aspen debit card provided to people seeking asylum. An apparently mishandled transfer between providers of the card has left people seeking asylum with no means to feed or provide for…
May 2021
Experience of poverty cannot be disentangled from other inequalities that shape society in Scotland. In this report, which provides recommendations for the Poverty and Inequality Commission, Rachel Statham Senior Fellow at IPPR Scotland has reviewed existing research and policy in Scotland as it relates to intersectionality and inequalities.…
May 2021
For the Commission, the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIRU) of Glasgow Caledonian University have produced a rapid evidence review of the academic literature. It reports on how people with lived experience of poverty are involved in policy and service development and delivery. The evidence from this…