2. Scotland’s next Child Poverty Delivery Plan: The role of paid work (Members Event)

The Poverty Alliance are organising a series of member seminars to discuss the next Plan and the action we need to see to make real progress.
The current Plan includes welcome actions on paid work and employment support but there have been a number of implementation gaps and budget cuts which have hampered progress. Three-quarters of children in poverty in Scotland live in a household where someone is in paid work. Despite the Scottish Government’s policy ambitions to become a fair work nation and welcome progress through the real Living Wage, paid work is not yet functioning as the sustainable route out of poverty that it should be. Join this seminar to discuss what action is needed in employment to meet our child poverty targets. What can be done to ensure that everyone has access to decent work with fair wages and sustainable hours? How can we tackle continued structural inequalities faced by women, Black and minority ethnic people and disabled people? This will be an opportunity to learn more about the options that exist in fair work policy-making and to put forward recommendations for the next Plan.