The Austerity Action Group, consisting of social workers and people with direct experience of using services, open letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak calling for decade long austerity policies to be rolled back as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read the statement outlining our disappointment at the decision not to extend a national exemption to social workers as Stage 2 bill proceedings draw to a close.
This past week, The Herald featured a report by One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) which brings attention to how the social security system acts against family reunification.
While we entirely agree with many of the issues and recommendations highlighted in the report, we were dismayed by the framing in the Herald article which over-simplified the relationship between poverty and the difficult, yet vital, decisions about safety and risk that professionals must sometimes make with families.