Poverty and Protected Characteritics is a cross-cutting theme of our work in Fife which includes our research on Equality in Fife across the protected characteristics, the barriers to accessing anti-poverty measures (Let’s Leave No One Behind) and life outcomes (Different Paths – A Collection of Life Stories) for individuals.
This theme joins up work on advancing and mainstreaming equality (usually understood as between groups of people or communities) with that of reducing inequality (usually concerning topics around health or wealth/poverty).
Understanding how those key areas of work are interlinked and can complement each other became even more crucial since the Fairer Scotland Duty came into force on 1 April 2018. This duty enacted part 1 of the Equality Act 2010, in Scotland and places a duty on certain public bodies in Scotland to consider how to reduce inequalities of outcome caused by socio-economic disadvantage.
We also collect and share under this theme testimonies of the impact of the Covid19 pandemic through community interviews and blogs or articles.