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Chamber and committees

A Just Capital: Actions to End Poverty in Edinburgh

  • Submitted by: Sarah Boyack, Lothian, Scottish Labour.
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 01 October 2020
  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Motion reference: S5M-22912

That the Parliament welcomes the report by the Edinburgh Poverty Commission, A Just Capital: Actions to End Poverty in Edinburgh; thanks its authors for their tireless work and awareness-raising; notes the report’s key ambitions, which are to have the right support in the places people live and work, fair work that provides enough to live on, decent, affordable, homes, income security that offers a real lifeline; opportunities that drive justice and boost prospects, connections in a city that belongs to everyone and equality in health and wellbeing; acknowledges its policy proposals to implement these, which, it believes, present a bold route to ending poverty in Edinburgh by 2030; recognises the importance of adhering to the core message of the report, which is to involve people with direct experience of poverty, people in the public and voluntary sectors who have the energy and commitment to make the difference and Edinburgh's citizens, and encourages the Scottish Government to work with the City of Edinburgh Council to make this vision a reality.


Supported by: Claudia Beamish, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Neil Findlay, Kenneth Gibson, Monica Lennon, Elaine Smith