Poverty In Scotland: A Discussion With Jrf On Progress Pre, During And Post Covid-19

1st July 2020

A podcast from Fraser of Allender Institute with the Joseph Rowantree Foundation (JRF).

At the end of the parliamentary year, we would normally have received a progress report form the Scottish Government on their efforts to tackle child poverty and how they are making progress towards the statutory child poverty targets.

Link To The Podcast and JRF survey

Duration: 37:55 | Recorded on June 26, 2020 | Speakers: Deborah Hay, Emma Congreve, Jim McCormick

The report has been postponed indefinitely, but this doesn't mean that work hasn't been ongoing, albeit there is yet little movement in the child poverty rates to report yet. In this podcast, we discuss what drives poverty, how actions were shaping up pre-Covid and new JRF research which looks at the impact on people on low incomes so far in this crisis. As well as discussing what governments can do in the here and now, we also look ahead to the next Scottish election and some of the longer term policy development that will be required.