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Poverty Alliance News Releases

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Guest blog: New index shows urgent need to support pensioner well-being

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News: Campaigners say it’s not too late to end the injustice of child poverty 

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Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter – Issue 2, 2025

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News: Chancellor has no justification for social security cuts

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News: Campaigners say cuts will push people towards destitution

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News: Stand together to protect our social security rights

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News: New toolkit to support workers and businesses in hospitality sector

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Isla McIntosh and David Reilly of the Poverty Alliance, with lived experience creators at the launch of the Fair By Design Give Me Some Credit exhibition. February 2025.

Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter – Issue 1, 2025

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News: People on low incomes need council tax action now

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News: Unjust council tax has to go

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News: Social security is vital to end child poverty

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Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter – Issue 13, 2024

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Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletters

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Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter – Issue 2, 2025

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Isla McIntosh and David Reilly of the Poverty Alliance, with lived experience creators at the launch of the Fair By Design Give Me Some Credit exhibition. February 2025.

Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter – Issue 1, 2025

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Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter – Issue 13, 2024

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Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter – Issue 12, 2024

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Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter – Issue 11, 2024

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Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter – Issue 10, 2024

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Latest blogs

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Blog: New Rights in Action report shows far-reaching impact

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A tribute to Charlotte McLurg 1977-2025

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Blog: Argyll & Bute values voices of lived experience 

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Guest blog: From a whisper to speaking out loud

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Guest blog: A call for the next Scottish election – support a Minimum Income Guarantee for carers!

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Joint meeting of the Cross-Party Groups on Disability and Poverty in the Scottish Parliament

Guest blog: ‘I struggle just to get through the days alive’

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Zahida Purves's photo as part of the Fair by Design Give Me Some Credit exhibition

Guest blog: We tell our stories not for pity – but as a demand for change

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Blog: Supporting human rights defenders in rural Scotland

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Guest blog: Building a fairer Aberdeen – 10 years on

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Guest Blog: Challenges and opportunities for low-paid and insecure hospitality workers

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A group of men and women at HMP Grampian, attending a roundtable event by charity Families Outside

Blog: Prison journey costs add to poverty injustice

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Blog: Social security is a foundation to build a better future

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Blog: Libraries are a vital support for people on low incomes

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Blog: TARP Aberdeenshire supports Highlands and Islands human rights report

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News: New report uncovers Roma people’s housing challenges

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Blog: What stops people in poverty realising their human rights?

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A photograph of End Poverty Edinburgh members at the City Chambers.

Guest blog: End Poverty Edinburgh helps me feel I can make a difference

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Views Greenock Scotland

Guest blog: What can the census can tell us about deprivation and poor health?

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Guest blog: We love where we live – but unjust added costs can push people into poverty in rural areas

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Blog: MSPs can make action on poverty their Budget priority

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Blog: Embedding fair work in hospitality – insights from the Serving the Future project

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Members of the Tackling Poverty and Inequality (TPI) team at Aberdeenshire Council, with others, at an event held during Challenge Poverty Week 2924.

Blog: How can people on low incomes use their experience to push for change?

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Guest blog – what’s the most effective way of eradicating fuel poverty?

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Guest blog – Poverty costs all of us: why together, we can end it

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Challenge Poverty Week – Day 3

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Guest blog – The urgent need for an adequate income, at a time of rising costs

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FM meets people with lived experience of life on low incomes for Challenge Poverty Week 2024 (c) Scottish Government

Challenge Poverty Week – Day 2

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Challenge Poverty Week – Day 1

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Guest blog – For me, home is where love begins

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Blog: What next for human rights in Scotland?

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Debbie Horne of Independent Age holding a photo board that says 'I support a pensioner poverty strategy for Scotland'

Guest blog: The need for a National Pensioner Poverty Strategy – could Scotland lead the way?

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Pounds and pence

Blog: Fair funding is a must in the fight against unjust poverty

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End Poverty Edinburgh Members at their Conference in October 2023

Research: End Poverty Edinburgh Evaluation

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Blog: The numbers are in – people care about looking out for each other

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Pounds and pence

Blog: Human Rights Budgeting – Resourcing a Fairer Future

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Guest blog: Participatory knowledge as evidence in policymaking in Scotland

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UK Houses of Parliament

Blog: After the Landslide: What now for the fight against poverty?

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Guest Blog: Carers Week 2024 put carers on the map – but now what?

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Linda Craik - Poverty Summit - 3 May 2023

Guest blog: A new beginning… or more of the same?

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Blog: Adding human rights to our collective power!

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Blog: Fair taxes build better budgets. Better budgets build a better future.

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Blog: The Human Rights Bill: What’s important for people with lived experience of poverty in Scotland?

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Cfine Aberdeen Parade

Guest blog: Cash-first but not ‘cash-only’ when tackling poverty

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Citizens Advice Scotland Stressed About Debt campaign

Guest blog: The link between mental health and personal debt

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MSPs supporting Challenge Poverty Week 2023

Blog: Challenge Poverty Week 2023 was bigger than ever

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Guest blog: Homing in on renters in later life

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Blog: The Minimum Income Guarantee Seminars

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Helping hands

Blog: Social security changes could help free people to prosper

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Health inequalities session

Guest blog: Improving health – can radical income policies make an impact?

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Make Human Rights Justice a Reality

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The Poverty Alliance Taking Action on Rural Poverty Team

Making connections for good at the Scottish Rural & Islands Parliament – Part 2

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The Poverty Alliance Taking Action on Rural Poverty Team

Making connections for good at the Scottish Rural & Islands Parliament

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16 days against gender=based violence

Guest blog: Women pay the price for gender inequality and poverty

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Guest blog: Shifting the dial on poverty requires partnership working… and a great deal more political will

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Poverty is a human rights failure

Blog: Poverty is a cause and a consequence of human rights failures.

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Guest blog: Child poverty and the impact of imprisonment

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Guest blog: Reflections on the Mental Health Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis – Year 2

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Guest blog: Exploring brave reflective spaces within the workplace

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MSPs supporting Challenge Poverty Week 2023

Blog: pride in pushing to turn compassion and justice into concrete action

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Guest blog: Supporting Scottish consumers in the communications and energy sectors

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Guest blog: shedding light on the impact of poverty on older Scots

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Guest blog: A Scotland where no-one goes hungry

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Guest Blog: Stories that should not be happening in 21st century Scotland

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Guest blog: A Strong Start to The Day – The Power Of A School Breakfast

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Guest blog: Menu for All – Joining Food and Support Access

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Guest blog: Reducing transport poverty, a route to better health for all and a just transition

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Guest blog: Cycling helps tackle poverty – here’s how

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A stock photo of a bike and fishing boats representing rural Scotland.

Blog: Together, we can challenge the injustice of rural poverty in Scotland

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End Poverty Edinburgh campaigning at the Scottish Parliament for Challenge Poverty Week

Guest blog: We don’t need to accept this injustice

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Guest blog: How are we challenging poverty at Fife Gingerbread?

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Guest blog: Every child should have the support they need to live a happy and healthy life

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Guest blog: Leadership is at the heart of tackling poverty

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Guest blog: Economic Abuse is Fueling Women’s Poverty in Glasgow

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Guest blog: Suicide is an inequality issue

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Blog: In-work poverty in Scotland – learning from the Serving the Future project

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Guest blog: To tackle carer poverty, we need radical change

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Guest blog: How the cost of living crisis is impacting the lives of women who sell or exchange sex

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Guest Blog: We can invest in homes for a better Scotland

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Guest blog: Homelessness causes poverty and poverty causes homelessness

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Peter Kelly

Blog: 10 years of Challenge Poverty Week

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Guest blog: Are our communities and volunteers really valued?

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Guest blog: Fair Work in the Third Sector

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Guest blog: Scotland and the UK are wealthy; there is no need for poverty

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Guest blog: The value of supporting communities and volunteers is undeniable

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Blog: The Scottish Government can replace the unjust Council Tax – not just tinker with it

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Helping hands

Hollow political phrases won’t dull people’s desire for a better world

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A woman looks worried about her empty purse

Guest blog: Disabled people’s poverty is unacceptable – so why does it feel like it is becoming so?

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Challenge Poverty Week 2023 – Introducing our key policy asks

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Guest blog: Human rights put power into the hands of those who miss out

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Guest Blog: Childcare is key to freeing women from poverty and inequality

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End Young Parent Poverty campaign

Guest blog: Let’s End Young Parent Poverty. It’s an injustice that harms children.

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Guest blog: Counting the cost: debt, destitution and doing it differently

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Blog: The Scottish Government must go further to meet legal child poverty targets

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Linda Craik - Poverty Summit - 3 May 2023

Guest Blog: Me and the First Minister

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Blog: Climate is a poverty issue

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Blog: Our national priorities have to include housing and carers’ needs

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Diabetes UK Tech Can't Wait campaigner Shelley Murray

Guest blog: Diabetes tech can’t wait

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Guest blog: Reducing anxiety has to mean reducing poverty

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Community Wealth Building must have people at its heart

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End Poverty Edinburgh at the First Minister’s anti-poverty summit

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Children in silhouette

We can free parents from the injustice of working poverty

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Poverty is a failure of human rights

Poverty and inequality are creating a human rights crisis in the UK

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Humza Yousaf receiving the Great Seal of Scotland after taking the oath as First Minister.

Action on the injustice of poverty is new FM’s defining mission

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Why we need a pensioner poverty strategy for Scotland

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Scotland’s poorest children suffer the most

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A child playing with building blocks.

New Challenges: Working towards better experiences of child maintenance

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Breaking the barriers to higher education for asylum seekers

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A woman cycling through a Scottish town.

People see cycling as a way to save money during the cost-of-living crisis

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Lydia Murphy of the Poverty Alliance hosing a Rights In Action workshop.

Governments must keep their human rights promises

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Urgent action needed to help households weather the cost-of-living storm

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Guest blog – Sustrans Scotland offers support for active travel in marginalised communities

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Member blog: Time to talk about pensioner poverty

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Poverty is a human rights failure

Rights in Action: Why are we thinking about poverty and human rights? 

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PhD opportunity to explore poverty and mental health

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Blog: Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary Social Justice, Housing and Local Government

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Blog: Anas Sarwar, Leader of Scottish Labour

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Blog: Lorna Slater, Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens

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Blog: Tackling poverty & lived experience

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Blog: Alex Cole-Hamilton, Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats

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BLOG: Road blocks to affordable and accessible transport for all in Scotland

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Scottish Parliament MSP Offices

Blog: From rhetoric to reality: now is the time for action on poverty

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Blog: Nicola Sturgeon, Leader of the SNP

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Blog: Douglas Ross, Leader of the Scottish Conservatives

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Blog: Anas Sarwar, Leader of Scottish Labour

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Blog: Lorna Slater, Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens

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Blog: Willie Rennie, Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats

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Guest Blog: Mollie McGoran MSYP, Scottish Youth Parliament

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GUEST BLOG: Children’s University Scotland

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On the road to recovery, we can make sure everyone has a seat

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Guest blog: Scotland’s 100,000 challenge

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Guest blog: Charting Scotland’s path towards recovery

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Blog: Why expanding free public transport must be part of building a wellbeing economy

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Blog: A Minimum Income Guarantee would ensure disabled people like me can take part in society, Amanda Foster

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BLOG: Funding the fight against poverty

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Blog: 5 things I learned from Get Heard Scotland

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Blog: When we return to normality, this can’t mean business as usual

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Guest blog: Climate, class and the radical action we need

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Blog: Poverty is the root of Scotland’s fatal drug overdose crisis

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10 Downing Street

Blog: Righting the wrongs of the past decade must be Boris Johnson’s top priority

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BLOG: The difference a £5 a week top-up to Child Benefit could make to Scotland’s families

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BLOG: Transport and poverty: making the connection

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