Challenge Poverty Week 2022

This year’s theme for Challenge Poverty Week is how we ‘Turn the Tide’ of poverty. SASW posted content on our social media channels this week focusing on the different ways that poverty harms people’s lives and calling on politicians to tackle it.

Dominic Watters (Social Worker and Campaigner)- “We the poor have been silenced through snobbery for too long”. The anxiety of food and fuel insecurity.

Sarah Anderson (Social Work Student and Community Councillor)- “People are ending up in hospital or worse because they can’t afford to live.” The impact of poverty on disabled people.

Carolynne Hunter (Unpaid Intensive Carer)- “I don’t know how I’m going to afford it. I’m worried and anxious”. Carolynne and her daughter, Freya share their living experience of poverty.

Community Care: “We are just working to live at the moment”. How the rising cost of living is affecting social workers.  

Kevin Stewart MSP: "Poverty and the Cost of Living Crisis". The Minister for Wellbeing and Social Care writes exclusively for SASW about the role of the Scottish Government's Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund in tackling mental health inequalities brought about by financial insecurity. 

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