| Poverty
Alliance Briefing 9- Tackling Poverty, Inequality, and Deprivation
in Scotland: A summary of the Scottish Government Discussion
Paper |
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In January 2008 the Scottish Government launched a discussion
paper on tackling poverty in Scotland. This provides an opportunity
for individuals and organisations to talk to the Government
about poverty, inequality and deprivation in modern day Scotland.
The intention is to create a discussion that will inform the
Scottish Government’s development of a ‘framework’
to tackle poverty. |
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| Poverty Alliance
Briefing 8 - Different in Scotland? Public Attitudes to Poverty
A Discussion paper |
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Without winning over larger parts of the public to
support the fight against poverty in the UK we will never
be able to put in place all the policies needed to make the
kind of change required. This has been an argument voiced
in recent years by increasing numbers of politicians and voluntary
organisations who are concerned about poverty in the UK. Some
have been inspired by the mass support for the Make Poverty
History campaign in 2005, which lead to very public displays
of support for tackling global poverty. |
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Poverty Alliance
Briefing 7 - Get Heard Scotland:
Making Work Pay? |
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Employment may have risen faster in Scotland than in Great
Britain as a whole since 19981 but statistics can often hide
the fact that not everyone has benefited from change. |
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Poverty Alliance
Briefing 6 - Women and Poverty:
Thirty Years of Equal Pay? |
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briefing
Evidence shows that women are more vulnerable to and likely
to spend longer periods of time living in poverty. Women are
also more susceptible to poverty in old age and their experience
of poverty tends to differ from that of most men...This briefing
looks at some of the facts behind women's continued high risk
of experiencing poverty. |
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| Poverty
Alliance Briefing 5 - Cultural Rights in Scotland: Access
for All? |
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briefing
This briefing looks at the main recommendations of the report
of the Cultural Commission, and concludes with some comments
on the implications of the report. |
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| Poverty Alliance
Briefing 4 - Progress in Tackling Poverty? Low Income Households
in Scotland 2003/04 |
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briefing
Households Below Average Incomes (HBAI) is the main data source
the UK Government uses to monitor trends in low incomes. The
figures give an indication of the impact of a variety of Government
policies, and are used to directly measure progress in the
Government’s commitments to eradicate child poverty.
The most recent edition of HBAI was published in March 2005
and covers the period 2003/04. This briefing sets out the
main findings relating to Scotland and highlights some of
the key comparisons with the rest of the UK. |
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| Poverty Alliance
Briefing 3 - Closing the Opportunity Gap: the Objectives and
Targets |
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report |
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| Poverty
Alliance Briefing 2- Poverty, Scotland and the European Union |
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briefing |
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| Poverty
Alliance Briefing 1 - Social Justice in Scotland: Indicators
of Progress 2003 |
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briefing |
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