Month: February 2022
Scottish Government consultation on Low Income Winter Heating Assistance
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The Poverty Alliance submit evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on the Scottish Attainment Challenge
Dr Laura Robertson, Senior Research Officer at The Poverty Alliance provided the below evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee in February 2022. The poverty-attainment gap: the context The attainment gap in Scotland starts in the early years and widens as children and young people move through the education system. From the early … Read more
Poverty Alliance responds to Ofgem’s announcement on energy price hikes
People on low incomes across the country are being caught up in a rising tide of hardship, with the cost of living crisis combining with an inadequate social security system to pull them deeper into poverty. Today’s Ofgem announcement threatens to turn this rising tide into a flood, as more people are forced into impossible … Read more
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