The Poverty Alliance

We've just published the last edition of the Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter for 2024, including a link to some new year reflections and a tribute to our members from chief executive Peter Kelly. https://lnkd.in/e4shViHe

We're very pleased to have secured support from The Robertson Trust to help more of Scotland's #SocialCare workers get a #LivingWage and a life beyond the injustice of in-work poverty. https://buff.ly/3ZWfJWf

"...our present and future depend on all of us." End Poverty Edinburgh member Olena talks about how coming together with others gives here hope for the future. https://lnkd.in/ezguRuRQ

What stops people in poverty from exercising their human rights? A great blog from our #RightsInAction development officer Lydia Murphy. https://buff.ly/3Bi6BSg

People want a just Scotland where everyone's right to a safe, warm, affordable, decent home is met. We've published a new #RightsInAction report with Romano Lav that shows how people in Govanhill's Roma communities are being denied that right. https://lnkd.in/eiMTzqfh

Our chief executive Peter Kelly gave evidence to the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry, outlining how the pandemic hurt people on low incomes hardest, because they were already living with the huge injustices of inequality and insecurity. This is his closing statement.

Our #RightsInAction project gives people in communities across Scotland the tools to use their #HumanRights to stand against the injustice of poverty. For #HumanRightsDay, our Lydia Murphy outlines what we've learned so far. https://lnkd.in/eQpBdW_2

This #HumanRightsDay, we're publishing a new report with @Roma_Voice highlighting the injustice that denies too many people in the Roma communities of #Govanhill their right to a decent home. https://lnkd.in/eiMTzqfh

What stops people in poverty realising human rights that are meant to be there for all of us? In the run up to #HumanRightsDay, our Lydia Murphy blogs about what people have told us in a new #RightsInAction briefing. https://lnkd.in/eQpBdW_2

Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani families are up to 5x more likely to be living in severe poverty for a long time compared to white families in the UK 📢  We've carried out new research to understand what these families experience and why they have this elevated risk.  Even after considering well-known risk factors there are still significant unexplained reasons why families from these groups are in persistent very deep poverty compared to white families.  And protective factors are less effective compared to white people. 🔽  - 7% of Bangladeshi and Black African families where all adults are in work still experience persistent very deep poverty.  - 7% of Bangladeshi, 6% of Black African and 5% of Pakistani workers in permanent jobs live in persistent very deep poverty compared with 2% of white workers in temporary roles. 📝 Our report shows there are significant underlying and unquantified factors beyond the standard predictors of poverty, as higher risks of persistent very deep poverty remain for people from these ethnic minority backgrounds compared to white families even after controlling for usual predictors.  - Pakistani and Bangladeshi families are still around three times more likely to be living in very deep poverty for a long time.  - Black African families are still around twice as likely to be living in very deep poverty for a long time. Any investigation into people’s experiences of very deep poverty that does not consider the racialised experiences of minority ethnic groups will be hopelessly incomplete. 🗣️