“It must be a true safety net that treats people with dignity and respect.”
Orkney Labour Party Welcomes Corbyn’s Pledge to Replace Universal Credit
‘A Bad Start Shouldn’t Mean A Bad End’: Campaign to Address the Impact of Poverty on Young Lives
“A major reason for the higher incidence of early deaths was poverty and its impact across the whole of a child’s life”
Scottish Book Trust 21: Enabling Everyone to have Access to Books
At Scottish Book Trust, we believe everybody should have access to the possibilities of books; to that imagination and that possibility for change.”
145 Families In Orkney Helped By The Scottish Welfare Fund
“The Scottish Welfare Fund is a vital lifeline for many people facing poverty or personal crisis.”
Normalising Chaos
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche
A ‘Harsh & Uncaring’ UK – The Alston Report
“much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos.”
‘Help to Claim’ Service Cannot Protect Date of Claim
The ‘Help to Claim’ service which is funded by the DWP but delivered by Citizens Advice Scotland does not protect the date a person makes a claim.
Brexit Chaos Masks a UK in Long Term Terminal Decline
nearly half a million food parcels were distributed in Scotland last year.
£125million to be Spent in Scotland Mitigating UK Government Welfare ‘Reforms’
Successive UK Government policies since 2010 have plunged 15 million people in the UK into poverty
Ignorance and Want
“British compassion for those who are suffering has been replaced by a punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous approach”
