A powerful and thought-provoking guest blog by Graeme Robbie of Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE).

'Cash-first shouldn't mean cash-only'

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❓Balance of power: Time to explore the powers that Scottish Parliament would need to advance the #MinimumIncomeGuarantee .

🗓️2-4pm, Tue 16 Apr
📍City Halls, Glasgow

👇Reserve your place here!

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📢 Women in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿are disproportionately impacted by rising poverty.

Join Engender, Scottish Women’s Aid & StepChange to explore the ways gender inequality is a cause & consequence of women’s financial inequality, and why this must shape solutions: lnkd.in/esVuVk6e

😧It is a stark injustice that people who live on low incomes are more likely to take their own lives.

👇Join us to better understand the issues and to consider the role of anti-poverty organisations in suicide prevention.

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In her powerful guest blog, Sarah-Jayne Dunn of Citizens Advice Scotland writes about their #StressedAboutDebt campaign, and the link between personal debt and mental health problems.

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It can’t be right that disabled people are more likely to be experiencing poverty in Scotland.

Read this blog from our Fraser of Allander Institute and our Senior Research Officer Laura Robertson on the additional costs of disability👇🏻

❓Balance of power: What powers could @scotparl need to advance the #MinimumIncomeGuarantee ?

🗓️2-4pm, Tue 16 Apr
📍City Halls, Glasgow

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😧It's a stark injustice that people who live on low incomes are more likely to take their own lives.

👇Join us to better understand the issues and to consider the role of voluntary organisations in suicide prevention.

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We're proud of our lived experience activists who took the time to tell their stories in this great film.

They do it because they hope their experience will end the #PovertyPremium that affects too many people on low incomes.

A great guest blog by Graeme Robbie of Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE).

'Cash-first shouldn't mean cash-only'

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❓Balance of power: What powers do we need to advance the #MinimumIncomeGuarantee ?

🗓️2-4pm, Tue 16 Apr
📍City Halls, Glasgow

👇Join us with Prof Nicola McEwen. Reserve your place here!

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Trauma Industrial Complex will launch on April 30th at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. For those unable to attend, we are streaming the whole thing live. You can set yourself a reminder now.

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As part of the End Child Poverty Coalition, we handed in a giant unhappy birthday card to @Dwpgovuk to mark 7 years of the two-child limit to benefit payments.

In this election year, all parties must commit to scrapping this unfair sibling tax. #AllKidsCount …

📢We have today published two research reports: ‘Fair work policy levers in Scotland’ and ‘Levers for fair work in hospitality in Scotland’ both undertaken by the Scottish Centre for Employment Research Strathclyde Business School #FairWorkHospitalityInquiry
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📢Carers in Aberdeen and the Aberdeenshire area, join our roadshow at Aberdeen Science Centre on Thursday 18 April 2024, 11am - 3pm.

- Information on caring
- Carers rights
- Wellbeing sessions

Register here: bit.ly/43df56E

This event is kindly supported by Regina.

Really excellent thread here from Helen Barnard on the complicated changing picture of pensioner poverty and how a 'laser focus on the triple lock doesn't help' focus minds on the change that matters.

📢 It’s not right that people in poverty are charged more for energy, credit and insurance because of the way they pay for them.

🎥 Watch Fair By Design’s latest film 👇 to hear brilliant community activists speak out against the #povertypremium .

Our Children Deserve Better: Tackling Child Poverty
NIAPN 2024 AGM; Keynote Speaker: Fiona McHardy Poverty Alliance

Tuesday 23 April, 11am
UNISON, Galway House, 165 York St, Belfast

Register today:
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'So when we talk about debt, we also have to talk about our mental wellbeing, because the two are inextricably linked.'
The #StressedAboutDebt campaign from Citizens Advice Scotland is doing great work to de-stigmatize debt and explore how it impacts us! 👏

😧It is a stark injustice that people who live on low incomes are more likely to take their own lives.

👇Join us to better understand the issues and to consider the role of voluntary organisations in suicide prevention.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/suicide-prev…