Tackling Poverty Update - 11 November 2024

Energy Efficiency & Fuel Poverty Skills Awareness

There are still spaces available on theis training session next week - Wednesday 20th November 2024 09:30 - 12:00 Face to Face @ Greener Kirkcaldy

If you have team members or colleagues that you think would like to attend any of the workshops, please can you ask them to sign up through the Health Promotion Training website - http://hptraining.fife.scot.nhs.uk. We would really like to get these courses filled up so your help and support is much appreciated. Alternatively, we have a paper registration form if they are unable to access the training through the website.

Poverty and Inequality Commission Report 

The link below takes you to recent work by the Scottish Commission on Poverty and Inequality prepared after focus groups were held with people from priority Groups most likely to be in poverty

Report of workshops with priority families in Scotland and their ideas to reduce child poverty - Poverty & Inequality Commission

The Commission worked with eight organisations to organise workshop discussions to gather parent and carer participant views on:

  • What policies to reduce child poverty they were aware of
  • How well they felt policies were working
  • What else they felt was needed to reduce child poverty

This report summarises the views of participants on the three topics above, expanding on the material the Commission published earlier in 2024 as part of its 2023-24 child poverty scrutiny

Social Security Scotland annual performance report 

Page 19 of this report shows the number of individuals paid across the Scottish Social Security benefits. All have increased in the last 12 months.

We are waiting for the take up rates across the various benefits to be  released and will share that in this update when it comes through

Annual Report and Accounts 2024

Marie Curie publish Dying in Poverty 2024 report 

Report highlighting the challenges of poverty and ill health.

Recent work of the Tackling Poverty and Preventing Crisis Board, looked at the impact of various benefit maximisation initiatives  including the CARF work supporting people with cancer. Over the last 12 months there was an average financial gain for individuals seen through this initiative of of £1 853 – total gain for all those supported was over £654 0000.

More than 10,000 terminally ill people dying in poverty every year, charity says | STV News

Help to Claim 

£15 million funding boost to Help to Claim as Government ramps up move to Universal Credit - GOV.UK

Please get in touch if you would like to know more about any of the updates this week,

Contact: Sheena Watson

Email: sheena.watson@fife.gov.uk