Your Voice, Your Say: Let’s Talk Inequality

Winter/spring

In a series of seven Policy Forums across Scotland, the Partnership explored – ahead of the Holyrood elections in May 2021 – what people believe the next Parliament needs to address to help create ‘a just and equal Scotland, in a just and equal world’.

To achieve this, we went to communities around the country to find out what mattered most to them. The forums – ‘Your Voice, Your Say: Let’s Talk Inequality’ – were delivered in partnership with local organisations and could not have happened without them.

The conversations explored the meaning of inequality in Scotland today – including the gap between rich and poor; geographical inequalities; and inequalities between groups based on gender, race and ability – and what levers can be used at a devolved level to tackle inequality in its various forms.

Making Policy Care

21st January

On 21st January, the Partnership hosted the Policy Forum ‘Making Policy Care’ on the relationship between paid and unpaid care work, poverty, and inequality. Taking place on the University of the West of Scotland’s Paisley Campus, the two-hour event brought together around fifty anti-poverty campaigners, people with lived experience of being a (paid/unpaid) carer, those involved in care service delivery, and policy professionals.