In today’s Scotsman ⁦Satwat Rehman⁩ and I on why defending the status quo is no longer an option. Politicians need to wake up to the change people want to see. Decent affordable homes, a job that pays and support when they need it. scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

Gaza is not a war zone - it is a graveyard for humanity's conscience. Palestinian children are suffering day after day as the Israeli bombardment and siege continues. These children have names, they have hopes and dreams for the future. They are someone's everything, their

240,000 children are in poverty in Scotland. They are the reason the child poverty reduction targets are so important. Today @JRF_uk have published a toolkit to ensure each party's manifesto is up to the task of meeting the targets.

📣 Passionate about children's rights and making an impact for children and families across Scotland? Join our team! 🌟 We're looking for an Impact & Learning Manager to help us better understand, evaluate, and amplify the impact of our work. goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP10…

🚨 NEW: 80% of Keir Starmer's Cabinet represent constituencies with higher than average child poverty rates, new analysis from Loughborough University for the End Child Poverty Coalition has found. The report also found an “extremely high correlation” between the two-child limit to

1/ We have seen Labour MPs and MSPs describing the SR event as increasing the block grant by £9.1 billion over the SR period. While Barnett consequentials add up to this, it's a figure that is neither transparent nor helpful

As always, a good, sober, digestible insight into the impact of the Spending Review on the Scottish Government's budget by the Fraser of Allander Institute. fraserofallander.org/2025-spending-…

The Poverty Alliance are right - and we stood with over a 100 other charities in Scotland to call for the ditching of the proposed cuts to disability benefits. The UK Government need to stop pretending that making people poorer will improve their lives.

Today Govt confirmed changes it will make to planned cuts to disability benefits. But Govt will still ask MPs to vote for large, arbitrary cuts to disabled people’s incomes that will increase poverty. The Bill should be opposed. Here’s why. 1/7

Govt admits remaining cuts will pull at least 150,000 people into poverty by 2029. But its new impact assessment is again misleading – it could be more like 250,000. (Same reason as why Govt’s previous poverty assessment understated the impact – see: x.com/IainKPorter/st…) 2/7

🚨STOP THE BUS🚨 We have a new vacancy in JRF's Scotland Team. We're looking for a Senior Policy Adviser to join our brilliant team here. Passionately believe we can deliver a better Scotland free from poverty? Then it could be 🫵 Details 👇🕑 10/8. jrf.org.uk/careers

I was delighted to give evidence to this enquiry. As the video says "retirement should be dignified and not a struggle at the poverty line." Joseph Rowntree Foundation and CRSP's Minimum Income Standard measures this. But what do the stats show? TL:DR it's not good news (1/4).