Commission Member Sandy Macdonald reflects on our latest report, Coronavirus and Poverty in Edinburgh, and suggests that what we have learned so far at the city level should be scaled up and applied elsewhere. It’s clear that the current pandemic will hit those...
Commission Member Zoe Ferguson recently wrote a blog reflecting on the Commission’s experience of publishing its latest report examining the impact of coronavirus on people living in poverty in Edinburgh.She notes that despite there being increasingly widening...
This week, we published our latest interim report, Poverty and Coronavirus in Edinburgh, which examines the impact of the pandemic on people living in poverty in the city. On the back of this, we have been delighted with the response that local and national media have...
On Tuesday morning (19 May 2020) we published our latest report, Coronavirus and Poverty in Edinburgh, and had an opportunity to discuss our research on BBC Radio Scotland’s flagship programme, Good Morning Scotland. Edinburgh Poverty Commission Member and...
As the UK went into lockdown in March, we published an update on our work and asked for people to tell us about their experiences of living in poverty in Edinburgh. Today, in response to this call, we have published an interim report (and a summary of the report). In...
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