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Poverty Alliance News Releases

UK Government Red Despatch Boxes

News – Chancellor must do more to support people in poverty

First Minister John Swinney MSP gives his Vision for Economic Renewal on 21 October 2024 (c) The Scottish Government

News – Poverty campaigners welcome FM speech

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

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

Participants in the first MIG seminar in Dundee

News – Governments must act to deliver a minimum income guarantee for all

News – Organisations across Scotland unite to challenge poverty

News – Faith leaders unite in call to draw a line under ‘unjust’ poverty

Bute House - Official Residence of The First Minister

News – Warm words must lead to urgent action on poverty

News: Scottish Government must use tax and investment to fix gaping holes in Scottish society

The door of number 10 Downing Street

News: Prime Minister can invest today for a better society tomorrow

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News: Scottish Government should keep freedom to travel promise

A cartoon showing people with different skin colours holding clenched fists aloft, as a symbol of solidarity.

News: Statement on racist violence

SCoRSS paper Designing in Dignity - Summer 2024

Guest Blog: A 21st Century vision of social security

A stock image showing the hands of an older man counting coins from his wallet.

News: Poverty is the missing mission in the King’s Speech

Securing Our Future Manifesto Featured Image

News: “To rebuild trust in our system, they need to deliver real change” The Poverty Alliance responds to the UK General Election outcome

Securing Our Future Manifesto Featured Image

News: Scrap benefit caps to boost compassion in social security

Poverty Alliance members take part in a #VoteYourValues photocall

News: Campaigners warn this could be the most unequal election in 60 years

A rural wind turbine farm renewables.

News: How can we best help people living in rural Scotland build a life beyond poverty?

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News: Rural idylls can hide poverty injustice

John Swinney MSP (c) The Scottish Government

News: New FM must show leadership on poverty and fair taxes

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News: Poverty campaigners on ‘cynical’ PM – ‘A sick society makes sick people’

A stock image of protesters, with a sign saying 'System Change, not Climate Change'

News: Broken climate pledges undermine trust in democracy and will hit poorest hardest

News: Poverty numbers show urgent need to raise social investment

UK Government Red Despatch Boxes

News: Budget give-aways won’t help tackle poverty

An image of two children, one helping the other has a temperature

First Minister’s child poverty commitment is welcome – but more work needs to be done

Budget fails to deliver fundamental change

Oxfam Scotland Time to Tax campaign

Scottish Budget must be a ‘pivotal moment for fundamental change’ through fair tax reform

Scottish anti-poverty charities back tax calls ahead of Scottish Budget

A stock photo of three young men in their wheelchairs.

Ministers don’t have the right to say who is fit for work

A person caring for an older person

Being brave means ending the regressive council tax

First Minister Humza Yousaf at anti-poverty summit April 2023 (c) The Scottish Government

Humza Yousaf to meet people living on low incomes to build stronger solutions to poverty

A stock image of someone working in the hospitality sector.

Tackling the drivers of in-work poverty in Scotland

Scotland's faith leaders come together for Challenge Poverty Week 2023

Scotland’s faith leaders come together to support Challenge Poverty Week 2023

First Minister Humza Yousaf at anti-poverty summit April 2023 (c) The Scottish Government

First Minister has missed ‘critical opportunity’ on poverty

Programme for Government 2023 Featured Image

Campaigners unite to ask FM for action on poverty

Twimukye at the Scottish Parliament

It’s hard to say goodbye to Twimukye

A stock image of night bus services.

Scrapping night buses will hit people on low incomes hardest

The word 'recovery' being highlighted

We can’t tackle drug deaths and addiction without tackling poverty

Stock image - A rainbow on children's hands

Politicians have a moral responsibility to scrap unjust child-limits

An image of two children, one helping the other has a temperature

Child poverty an injustice Scotland has to put right

First Minister Humza Yousaf at anti-poverty summit April 2023 (c) The Scottish Government

Fighting poverty needs strong public investment through tax

Asylum seeker rights in action research briefing

Asylum seekers denied their full rights to education in Scotland

The First Minister's Scottish Anti-Poverty Summit - 3 May 2023

Now is not the time to roll back on free school meals

Man walking through snowy countryside

Parliament group to shine a light on rural poverty

Scottish Parliament MSP Offices

Test for First Minister is in the difference changes make to people’s lives

Tackling poverty is Humza Yousaf’s defining mission

A woman looks worried about her empty purse

‘Stable’ poverty rates are nothing to celebrate

UK Government Red Despatch Boxes

Budget will strike fear into the hearts of millions

The Scottish Poverty and Inequality Leadership Hustings

Leadership candidates to be quizzed on poverty and inequality

Scotland must turn its back on poverty-related stigma, say MSPs and activists

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Government has a moral responsibility to protect people from rocketing costs

Poverty Alliance Conference 2023

2024 a year to turn words into deeds

2022 Poverty Alliance Conference and AGM

New Year message – we can lift people out of poverty and create a Scotland with wellbeing at its centre

Government could do even more to invest in a just and compassionate Scotland

Better Future - 2022 Poverty Alliance Conference & AGM

Scotland can build a future free from poverty

UK Government Red Despatch Boxes

Autumn statement will cause fear for the future

Cover page of 'It's hard work being poor report'

Cost-of-living crisis increasing hardship for women living on low incomes in Scotland

Scottish Parliament MSP Offices

Scottish Govt cuts will affect those on low incomes – but spotlight now on Westminster

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Our position on the cost of living crisis and warm places as an emergency response

Challenge Poverty Week

Tax u-turn is welcome, but now we must boost social security

UK Government Red Despatch Boxes

Poverty Alliance says mini budget will do nothing for people who need help the most

Real Living Wage increases to £10.90 in Scotland

10 Downing Street

Help with bills welcomes – but people on low incomes will need more

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP

Important Scottish Government action – but we can do more

Energy price hikes will cause ‘stress, anxiety, illness, debt and death’.

Peter Kelly of the Poverty Alliance, with Nicola Sturgeon at energy summit on 23 August 2022

‘Government and energy companies have a moral duty to act’

Energy summit must spark action

1,330 drug-related deaths in 2021 in Scotland

‘We can’t tackle drugs deaths without tackling poverty’

Poverty Alliance write to Chancellor urging action on benefit cap

Secure our social security legacy with a Royal Commission

Tackling poverty needs investment in local services

Crisis demands even more action to tackle poverty

Social security is a right - Scowr

Scotland must embrace chance to renew social security

10 Downing Street

Queen’s Speech a failure of courage and compassion

New councillors can help end poverty – local election manifesto

A family saving money.

Apply now for the Scottish Child Payment!

New poverty figures highlight ‘unjust’ benefit cut

Child poverty measures welcomed, but more to do

Chancellor’s statement a failure of courage and compassion

10 Downing Street

Campaigners tell Downing Street to #ScrapTheCap

‘Put money in our pockets’ to tackle child poverty

More than 100 groups unite to tell the Chancellor to scrap the cap

The Poverty Alliance submit evidence to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on the Scottish Attainment Challenge

Poverty Alliance responds to Ofgem’s announcement on energy price hikes

New CPG inquiry launched into poverty-related stigma

Report considers Government’s options for tackling child poverty in Scotland

Tackling poverty for good mental health

Campaigners call for end to benefit cap as survey shows widespread hardship

Scottish Parliament MSP Offices

Poverty Alliance responds to Scottish Government budget

New report calls for local action to tackle poverty

Scottish Government announce the doubling of Scottish Child Payment

Majority of Scots support immediate doubling of Scottish Child Payment, new poll finds

End Poverty Edinburgh: Building a fairer capital

Budget must “double Scottish Child Payment immediately”, Kate Forbes told

Public urged to back call to double Scottish Child Payment now

Poverty Alliance respond to UK Government budget

New report calls for action on tutoring and mentoring to help close the attainment gap in Scotland

Challenge Poverty Week: Voices across Scotland to unite in support of action to loosen the grip of poverty

Scotland’s faith leaders unite to back call to double Scottish Child Payment now

‘Do the right thing and double the Scottish Child Payment now’ civil society coalition tells First Minister

Poverty Alliance launch Get Heard Scotland summary report

Poverty Alliance demand publication of Universal Credit cut analysis

Transport system unaffordable for too many people in the grip of poverty, new report finds.

Child poverty rising in every Scottish local authority, according to new data from End Child Poverty Coalition

Scotland’s political leaders urged to commit to expansion of free bus travel

Poverty Alliance launch ‘Everyone Aboard’ campaign

Poverty Alliance launch 2021 Holyrood election manifesto

NEW BRIEFING: Get Heard Scotland in Renfrewshire

“Stark gaps” in educational attainment risk being compounded by Covid, warns new Poverty Alliance report

End Child Poverty coalition launches Holyrood election manifesto

Real Living Wage increases to £9.50 in Scotland

Let’s redesign our social security system so it helps, not harms, our mental health

Scotland’s Faith Leaders Call for Social Security Reforms to Ease the Pressure of Poverty

Poverty Alliance Annual Conference 2020

Programme for Government ‘fails to adequately respond’ to rising tide of child poverty in Scotland, say End Child Poverty coalition

New report suggests Scotland faces soaring child poverty without urgent action, End Child Poverty coalition warns

Poverty Alliance respond to new benefit cap statistics

Poverty Alliance respond to Chancellor’s economic statement

BLOG: It’s time to scrap the cap

Poverty Alliance call on Chancellor to scrap the benefit cap

New report: How well is Universal Credit Supporting People in Glasgow

Response to Scottish Government’s Economic Recovery Advisory Group Recommendations

Exploring the use of Flexible Educational Arrangements in Fife

Building back better: the impacts of COVID-19 on our economy and health

Our Lives Our Solutions: New Get Heard Scotland report launched

New data shows more and more children in Scotland being pulled into poverty

Campaigners call for emergency cash boost to prevent child poverty crisis

Unearthing the hidden problems in the system of Universal Credit

First Minister urged to put wellbeing at the heart of our economic recovery

Annual poverty stats show one in five in poverty before Corona hit

Poverty Alliance responds to new UK Government measures

Coronavirus and poverty: Poverty Alliance response

Poverty Alliance welcomes new measures to protect communities

UK Budget fails to deliver on promise to “level up”

A budget to “level up” our economy?

Response to extension of statutory sick pay

Redesigning our labour market so it works for all of us

Campaigners issue budget demand as number of people seeking crisis support soars

Calls to end 5 week wait for Universal Credit as UK Government admits they don’t know how many people it has pulled into poverty

Report calls for action to loosen the grip of poverty in Edinburgh

10 Downing Street

The Poverty Alliance responds to General Election result

Poverty Alliance launches general election manifesto

New Real Living Wage rate of £9.30 is announced

‘Sorry we missed you’, a harrowing glimpse into the harsh edges of the gig economy

Challenge Poverty in Scotland? Aye we can, now more than ever!

Scotland’s faith leaders urge: ‘we must loosen the grip of poverty’

UK Government refuses to disclose analysis of Brexit’s impact on poverty

Poverty Alliance join forces with over 85 civil society organisations to express grave concerns about no-deal

New programme to support community-led action research in Scotland

NEWS: Poverty Alliance responds to new Scottish Child Payment

Blog: Kids can’t wait another three years

Kids can’t wait for new income supplement: letter to First Minister

Poverty Alliance responds to UN report on poverty in the UK

Calls for urgent cash boost for families as Scotland’s poverty rate rises

Poverty Alliance responds to Spring Statement

Poverty Alliance responds to Scottish Government budget

Poverty Alliance responds to UN Special Rapporteur’s findings

Church leaders, academics and campaigners call for Budget to introduce new income supplement to tackle child poverty

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Latest blogs

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

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?

A stock image of a dog by a radiator, to represent warm homes

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

End Poverty Edinburgh Conference 2024 1

Challenge Poverty Week – Day 3

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

Challenge Poverty Week – Day 2

Challenge Poverty Week – Day 1

Guest blog – For me, home is where love begins

A stock image showing building blocks spelling out the phrase Human Rights

Blog: What next for human rights in Scotland?

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?

Pounds and pence

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

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

Pounds and pence

Blog: Human Rights Budgeting – Resourcing a Fairer Future

A stock image of different coloured threads coming together, to represent partcipatory research and approaches.

Guest blog: Participatory knowledge as evidence in policymaking in Scotland

UK Houses of Parliament

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

An image of a woman in a wheelchair with a young girl sitting on her knee (c) Carers Trust

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

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!

A stock image of two balloons representing our growing collective wealth.

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

A stock image illustrating human rights

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

Cfine Aberdeen Parade

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

Citizens Advice Scotland Stressed About Debt campaign

Guest blog: The link between mental health and personal debt

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

Minimum Income Guarantee Featured Image

Blog: The Minimum Income Guarantee Seminars

Blog: Social security changes could help free people to prosper

Health inequalities session

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

Make Human Rights Justice a Reality

The Poverty Alliance Taking Action on Rural Poverty Team

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

The Poverty Alliance Taking Action on Rural Poverty Team

Making connections for good at the Scottish Rural & Islands Parliament

16 days against gender=based violence

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

A stock photo of four young people, representing Youth Work.

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

Poverty is a human rights failure

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

Children in silhouette

Guest blog: Child poverty and the impact of imprisonment

British pensioner putting coins into a purse. Close up of hands. Black and white image. Cost of living concept.

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

A stock photo showing a young girl with red hair painting a pumpkin at a family event

Guest blog: Exploring brave reflective spaces within the workplace

MSPs supporting Challenge Poverty Week 2023

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

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

A stock photo of a group of older people enjoying a walk.

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

The Larder, West Lothian

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

A stock photo of a family out cycling

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

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

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

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

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

The Fife Gingerbread Man

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

A stock image of two young children in childcare.

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

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

A carer and an older person holding hands

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Challenge Poverty Week 2023 – Introducing our key policy asks

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

A stock image of two young children in childcare.

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

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

Children in silhouette

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

Linda Craik - Poverty Summit - 3 May 2023

Guest Blog: Me and the First Minister

Blog: Climate is a poverty issue

A stock image showing people walking down Buchanan Street in Glasgow.

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

Diabetes UK Tech Can't Wait campaigner Shelley Murray

Guest blog: Diabetes tech can’t wait

Stock image representing anxiety and poor mental health.

Guest blog: Reducing anxiety has to mean reducing poverty

A stock photo of Glasgow tenements

Community Wealth Building must have people at its heart

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

Children in silhouette

We can free parents from the injustice of working poverty

Poverty is a failure of human rights

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

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

A stock image showing the hands of an older man counting coins from his wallet.

Why we need a pensioner poverty strategy for Scotland

An image of two children, one helping the other has a temperature

Scotland’s poorest children suffer the most

A child playing with building blocks.

New Challenges: Working towards better experiences of child maintenance

People studying at college or university.

Breaking the barriers to higher education for asylum seekers

A woman cycling through a Scottish town.

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

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

Governments must keep their human rights promises

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

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

An older person at home

Member blog: Time to talk about pensioner poverty

Poverty is a human rights failure

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

PhD opportunity to explore poverty and mental health

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

Blog: Anas Sarwar, Leader of Scottish Labour

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

Blog: Tackling poverty & lived experience

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

Scottish Parliament MSP Offices

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

Blog: Nicola Sturgeon, Leader of the SNP

Blog: Douglas Ross, Leader of the Scottish Conservatives

Blog: Anas Sarwar, Leader of Scottish Labour

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

Blog: Willie Rennie, Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats

Guest Blog: Mollie McGoran MSYP, Scottish Youth Parliament

GUEST BLOG: Children’s University Scotland

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

Guest blog: Scotland’s 100,000 challenge

Guest blog: Charting Scotland’s path towards recovery

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

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

BLOG: Funding the fight against poverty

Blog: 5 things I learned from Get Heard Scotland

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

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

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

10 Downing Street

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

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

BLOG: Transport and poverty: making the connection

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