Here’s to longer lighter evenings for forest walks. And the rain finally stopping. For now…

Our Social Security Policy Officer, Erica Young, wrote about the need to ‘design out’ stigma from our social safety net. Read the article here 👇 tfn.scot/opinion/i-neve…

Deeply moving. Thank you Jen for sharing your experience. She highlights 30% of 10–19 yr olds that die by suicide, do so without any indication of distress.

Our local community is grappling with the loss of a young person in this way. We need to keep talking about this.

Building the case for a minimum income guarantee at the Scottish Greens conference today with these mighty women Ruth Boyle Satwat Rehman

We can build a just and compassionate Scotland where everyone has enough to live a decent, dignified and healthy life.

Really looking forward to teaming up with Satwat Rehman, Emma Jackson and Patrick Harvie 🇪🇺🌈 this weekend at Scottish Greens Conference in Edinburgh.

We’ll be talking about #DrawingALine under poverty with a Minimum Income Guarantee. 👇🏻

Missed our joint #CashFirstCommunities in #Glasgow last week?

We've put together a #CashFirstCommunities resources page including slides from the workshop sessions -
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Thanks so much to all our speakers and attendees..
The Trussell Trust Scotland #CashFirstCommunities

Everyone in Scotland deserves an affordable place to call home says Aoife Deery Aoife Deery of Citizens Advice Scotland Citizens Advice Scotland

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#HousingCrisis

Tomorrow, we are heading to Edinburgh to discuss how we build a MIG that draws a line under disabled people's poverty.

We'll be joined by Citizens Advice Scotland and Inclusion Scotland.

⏰10.30
📍Grassmarket Community Project

Sign up: eventbrite.co.uk/e/drawing-a-li…

YAAASSS!!!! She did it!!! Absolute Queen!!! What an incredible achievement The first woman ever to finish Jasmin Paris #BM100

New poverty stats were out this morning and show…

-very little change in levels of poverty in Scotland
-we are almost certain to miss the Interim Scottish Child Poverty Targets

This thread will cover some of the key takeaways from today’s release 🧵

“The report from the last three months of 2023 shows that demand for advice on food insecurity was up 41% compared to the same period the previous year.”⁦⁦Emma Jackson⁩ ⁦Citizens Advice Scotland⁩ ⁦⁦on thinking beyond the crisis⁩ #CashFirst tfn.scot/opinion/beyond…

Still some spaces left to join us next week as we focus on making sure a minimum income guarantee ensures disabled people have enough to live a decent, dignified and healthy life.

We must radically re-think our structures and systems around work, social security and public services, says Emma Jackson Emma Jackson of Citizens Advice Scotland -
'Beyond the crisis: we need to address the chronic problems of poverty'
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Highlight of the day - finally meeting Twitter pal Sabine Goodwin in real life. Hopefully the first of many as we conspire and collaborate to drive forward #CashFirstCommunities

Looking forward to joining forces and raising our voices for #CashFirst

‘As a campaigner… do you stand outside throwing pelters or try to infiltrate & take the scales from people’s eyes, say this is the reality children are living’ mary glasgow 💜📚 🐶🚲🇪🇺 🏊‍♀️⛷

An incredibly powerful insight into this devastating reality & deep frustrations with government inaction.

Ableist assumptions can become reality by creating barriers for disabled people.

It's time to change perspective 👓

📹 'Assume I can. So maybe I will.'

📢📢NEW REPORT📢📢

At a time when more than a quarter of a million unemployed people in Scotland are looking for work, our new report by Philip Whyte finds that full devolution of employment support can tackle child poverty and boost economy. Read here: ippr.org/articles/worki…