The Government said its child poverty strategy will focus on severe and acute poverty, so it must prioritise large families, lone parents and disabled people. The Government’s forthcoming child ...

The latest webinar in our Talking about Homes series will explore how to increase support for decent, affordable supported housing. We all need a decent, affordable home that supports our well being.

More than 1 in 5 Scots are currently living in poverty, struggling to survive on incomes that fall below what they need. This includes 1in every 4 children in Scotland. Despite the severity of the ...

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

This report shows the current state of poverty in Scotland. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic Scotland has blighted by poverty with a million people, including a quarter of a million children, trapped ...

This report, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups ...

We are in the midst of a profound cost of living crisis with huge implications for society. Many of us are having to make difficult choices on what spending we prioritise, but some of us face ...

Emerging from the pandemic but heading into a cost-of-living crisis, families need greater stability and support to allow them to meet their needs. Families on low incomes need a state safety-net that ...

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

This year’s Poverty in Scotland paints a bleak picture of a society in crisis. It demands action from all tiers of government to avert the worst of this crisis, and time is short.

This new research highlights that low-income households’ finances continue to buckle under the pressure of the cost of living crisis, as 7.2 million are going without the basics, and 4.7 million are ...

Expansion of funded early years childcare in Scotland must focus on children aged 1 and 2, and be designed to reduce poverty as well as costs.