Publications

Response to the Low Income Winter Heating Assistance (LIWHA) Consultation

February 2022 The Poverty and Inequality Commission responded to a consultation on the Scottish Government’s Low Income Winter Heating Assistance. Read the Commission’s response to the LIWHA consultation (February 2022)…

Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy

February 2022 The Commission wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy on the cost of living crisis and how consequential funding could be used to alleviate the crisis. Read the Commission’s letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy (February 2022)…

Advice on the Scottish Government’s Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022-2026

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…

Good jobs in Scotland

January 2022 Learning and Work Institute were commissioned to review the evidence and provide advice and recommendations on how the Scottish Government can support the creation of more ‘good jobs’ that reduce child poverty. This was done to inform the Commission’s advice to the Scottish Government for its next Child…

Response to COVID-19 Inquiry Aims and Principles

October 2021 The Poverty and Inequality Commission responded to a request for comment on the Aims and Principles of the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry on the handling of the pandemic. Read the Commission’s response on the Aims and Principles of the Inquiry (October 2021)…

Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the Poverty and Inequality Commission

July 2021 The Poverty and Inequality Commission wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak MP, to urge him to not to withdraw the £20-a-week Universal Credit uplift. Read the Commission’s letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the £20 Universal Credit uplift (July 2021)…

Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government

July 2021 A letter from the Poverty and Inequality Commission and the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government on Carer’s Allowance for those looking after more than one disabled child. Read the letter to the Cabinet Secretary (July 2021)…

The Poverty and Inequality Commission Annual Report 2020-21

June 2021 The Poverty and Inequality Commission has published it’s Annual Report 2020-21. The Annual Report covers the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 and looks back at the work we have carried out during the past 12 months. Download: Poverty and Inequality Commission – Annual Report 2020-21…

Poverty and Inequality Commission Child Poverty Scrutiny Report 2020-21 – Report to Scottish Government

June 2021 The Poverty and Inequality Commission has published its Child Poverty Scrutiny Report 2020-21. The Commission has provided advice to the Scottish Government’s latest child poverty progress report with an urgent call for more action to meet its child poverty targets. Download: Child poverty scrutiny report 2020-21 – Report …

Letter to the UK Government Home Secretary on the Aspen card scheme

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…

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