Disabled women are excluded by design - not by choice. 🆕Our new research reveals disabled women face discrimination at every stage of employment. Read the report below ⬇️ Full report: buff.ly/YzlUsN8 Summary report: buff.ly/1rXx57i Easy read: buff.ly/q9DpAW2

We’ve launched a new report with @trusselluk.bsky.social & @opfs.org.uk, using Scotland data from @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social & @stepchange.bsky.social, into the gendered nature of the public debt crisis in Scotland. Read: https://www.aberlour.org.uk/publications/gendered-nature-public-debt

We've published new research today with partners @aberlourcharity.bsky.social & @opfs.org.uk revealing that women in Scotland are often caught in a cycle of public debt which traps their family in hardship. We're calling on all levels of government to act. Read our report 👇 bit.ly/GenderPublic...

In our new research into the public debt crisis with @trusselluk.bsky.social & @opfs.org.uk, using Scotland data from @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social & @stepchange.bsky.social, we’re calling on all levels of government – at UK, Scottish and local level to act.

If you’re at #COSLA2025, please stop by and say hello. We’re right next to the coffee stand! ☕️

Scotland’s Forgotten Children - The Herald’s campaign to fight child poverty - has been shortlisted for the #MakingaDifference Award 2025 for best regional campaign. VOTE HERE: newsmediauk.org/making-a-dif... Voting closes at 5pm on Thursday, November 6.

🚨A RECORD 4.5 MILLION CHILDREN NOW LIVE IN POVERTY IN THE UK - a shocking & shameful 31% of all children Ending the two-child limit would lift 470,000 children out of poverty NOW. I’m joining Trussell in calling on the chancellor to end this cruel policy. Please join us🙏 youtu.be/xdtRtkOio8Y?...

Great to join campaigners, colleagues and friends in sunny Edinburgh ☀️ to demand better from both our Governments! ✅ Better jobs ✅ Better investment in life’s essentials ✅ Better social security #WeDemandBetter #ScotlandDemandsBetter

#WeDemandBetter #ScotlandDemandsBetter

📢Today's the day! Today we are marching together for a better Scotland. Join us as #WeDemandBetter March assembles from 10am (buses arriving from 9:30am) at Scottish Parliament.

This weekend thousands of people will march to say Scotland Demands Better. I’ll always raise the issue of food insecurity and work with the Government and @trusselluk.bsky.social @trussellscot.bsky.social to end it. See you at the @povertyalliance.org march on Saturday ✊

❗ The two-child limit is pushing families with children to food banks. This policy is unfair and cruel. And it's time to end it. 📧 Email your MP now to call on the Chancellor to end the two-child limit 👇 bit.ly/4ovyIAj

Every child deserves a decent start in life yet right now 1 in 4 are growing up in families unable to afford the essentials. Our social security system must do better. The cruel two child limit must be scrapped across the UK. 📧 Email your MP now 👇 action.trussell.org.uk/tell-your-mp...

I’ve now swapped the escapism of Disney Paris for some Parisian culture 🇫🇷

Luca is only here now thanks to the specialist care he got when born at 33 weeks in Kirkcaldy. I’m shocked the @scotgov are planning to close the neonatal unit at the Vic. This will endanger babies lives. Sign now to protect neonatal units in Scotland petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

Children in Scotland are 4x as likely to be in poverty if they are in two or more of the priority families that Scottish gov identified to highlight children at greater risk of poverty. Politicians must recognise the intersections between these groups 📢 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VqCa3k5gtLQ

1 million people in Scotland faced hunger last year. This isn’t right, we should all be able to afford the essentials. On 25th October, join #ScotlandDemandsBetter to demand better jobs, better social security & better public services, for all of us. 👉 scotland-demands-better.com/march-and-ra...

#ChallengePoverty #WeDemandBetter

We know public debt traps families in poverty and holds them there. Our research into the public debt crisis, with @opfs.org.uk & @trussellscot.bsky.social, highlights how families with a disabled child are at higher risk of being trapped in poverty due to public debt. #CPW25 #ChallengePoverty

It’s Day 3 of #ChallengePoverty week & we’re calling for better investment in life’s essentials to ensure everyone has a warm homes and access to better public transport and public services. #WeDemandBetter Read more here 👇 www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...

Today, with Unity Consulting Scotland, we’ve launched our new research into School Meal Debt in England.  Our research indicates that 1 in 4 children in England not in receipt of FSM have school meal debt. No child should be burdened with debt or denied a school meal due to financial hardship.

It’s Day 2 of #ChallengePoverty week. With 1 in 4 referred to @trusselluk.bsky.social food banks in Scotland in work, we must see action to ensure every job has a living wage and living hours & to make work accessible for all. #WeDemandBetter More here 👇 www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...

Around 1 in 4 children in Scotland are living in poverty. Poverty remains far too high, and people are feeling overlooked and ignored by politicians. The next Scottish Parliament is an opportunity to build a better future for all children in Scotland. 🔽 1/4

Will you be at #SNP25 this weekend? Come and join #EndChildPoverty's fringe event to explore what must happen now to meet the 2030 child poverty targets 🗓️Saturday 11th October, 12:30-13:30 📍Meeting Room 4, TECA (Aberdeen)

Everyone should be able to afford the essentials and a Minimum Income Guarantee would provide a secure foundation for all of us. #ChallengePoverty #WeDemandBetter Learn more here: www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...

Campaingers need to change the way they talk about child poverty - really interesting practical tokit launched today by @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @savechildrenuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We’re really excited to be at @savechildrensco.bsky.social & @jrf-uk.bsky.social Changing the Story launch today in Edinburgh. Looking forward to a inspiring day focused on how we tell the new story of child poverty in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📢Without action, families with children will see their incomes fall by the end of this Parliament. But our new analysis shows it doesn't have to be this way. Scrapping the two-child limit and adding a protected minimum floor into Universal Credit could reverse this trend. 🧵

As they arrive at the Labour Party Conference, we're greeting Keir Starmer and his MPs with a message that demands a screen bigger than 21,000 mobile phones*: "What was the point of winning the general election if not to lift kids out of poverty?" 1/3

Change happens when we step up and demand it. Join the march for all of us. #Edinburgh #25Oct #ScotlandDemandsBetter scotland-demands-better.com

Book the free transport from Fife to this "hopeful antidote to far-right protest": forms.office.com/e/FTR97V8LtU

One million Scots faced hunger last year including 1 in 4 children. This isn’t right. Today we’re in the Scottish Parliament with our team of lived experience experts to share our research and demand better.

Ending the need for food banks in the UK is possible. 🎤 We asked one of our experts - Research Manager, Alex - to explain how we get there ⤵️

How do we join the dots between tackling child poverty & digital exclusion in Scotland? Read my guest blog for @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/TrussellGood...

Nobody in Scotland should face hunger yet 1 MILLION did last year. Trussell’s research must be a wake up call for both our Govts. We must see urgent action to stop the tide of hunger in our communities. We demand better!

Want to help us end hunger in Scotland? 💚 Food banks in our community in Scotland are recruiting Trustees! Find out more and apply 👉 www.trussell.org.uk/our-work/sco...

Bryan Adams absolutely brilliant - incredible voice, incredible energy! 🤩 🎶 🎸 Wish I was there & not just watching on TV 📺 #BBCRadio2InThePark

An inspiring day at #RiseAgainstPoverty in Northern Ireland & great to share learnings on coalition building & #CashFirst from Scotland, alongside my Scottish ECP colleague Fiona King. Clear the NI anti-poverty sector are determined to demand better! Excited to see what comes next.

We’re excited to be in Northern Ireland today for the Anti Poverty Strategy Group’s Rising Together Against Poverty conference. Looking forward to an inspiring day of discussion about the way forward & to sharing lessons from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #RiseAgainstPoverty

I can’t remember it ever being so hot and sunny last week in August! Making the most of the morning in beautiful #Aberdour ☀️ 😃 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#Dunfermline food bank have collections again till 4pm today in Tesco #Duloch, Dalgety Bay and Dunfermline Fire Station. Please support if you can to support local people in our community unable to afford the essentials.

It was great to meet with Cara Hilton today from Trussell Scotland Trust to talk about the great the Edinburgh Food Project does, and to discuss how we end the need for food banks in Edinburgh and across the UK, including the crucial role of high quality employability support and flexible childcare.

Best of luck to everyone starting back at school today in #Fife. S4 and S6 (😱) for my youngest two!

🗓️ Save the date! On Sat 25 Oct we’ll be in Edinburgh to support #ScotlandDemandsBetter – better security, better jobs & better public services. Join us at 10.30am at the @parliament.scot 👉 www.scotland-demands-better.com

Change happens when we stand together to win it! @povertyalliance.org are taking the #ScotlandDemandsBetter message across the country - starting in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. Please share with your networks! www.scotland-demands-better.com/events

Want to help us end hunger in Scotland? 💚 Food banks in our community in Scotland are recruiting Trustees! Find out what it's like to be a trustee ⬇️ and sign up here 👉 bit.ly/40UPuzr

Holiday feels like it’s going very fast. Lovely day yesterday in #Venice, #Murano & #Burano 🇮🇹 ☀️

Amazingly my youngest is now 15! Celebrating his birthday in sunny #Sirmione #Italy ☀️ 🥳

🚨 We’re shocked and disappointed. The UK government has pushed through HUGE cuts to Universal Credit for disabled people applying in the future. These cuts will be devastating. They risk pushing even more disabled people to food banks.

Many disabled people are already unable to afford the essentials. Cuts to UC health support would be devastating. MPs should vote No. 👎