This document is intended as a toolkit for all parties standing in next year’s Scottish Parliament elections to ensure their manifestos are up to the task of meeting the child poverty reduction ...

UK Poverty 2017 highlights that overall, 14 million people live in poverty in the UK – over one in five of the population. This is made up of eight million working-age adults, four million children ...

Looking at perceptions of, and attitudes towards, wealth and wealth inequality — and how to increase public support for a fairer distribution. The UK is a very rich country, but its wealth is not ...

New analysis from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows how the next Scottish Government can meet the Parliament’s child poverty targets, and in doing so help to rebuild trust in politics. But ...

Tracking the impact that rising prices and interest rates are having on the finances, spending, health and wellbeing of low-income households. We aim to make sure that media, government and other ...

Poverty rates over time Poverty in Scotland fell rapidly over the decade from 1999–2002 to 2009–12, from 24% (1.2 million people) to a low of 18% (900,000 people). Over the following decade the trend ...

This report shows the current state of poverty in Scotland. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic Scotland has blighted by poverty with a million people, including a quarter of a million children, trapped ...

A prolonged period of falling living standards Since the publication of the first report in 2008, MIS has provided an annually updated benchmark, rooted in what the public believes constitutes a ...

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

This year’s State of the Nation report looks in detail at whether work is working for people in Scotland. The headline poverty statistics in Scotland are reasonably easy to remember, partly because ...

This report looks at 3 scenarios where buying private homes for social ownership can play a role in shaping the housing market and growing new, more equitable housing models.