Achieving our potential: a framework to tackle poverty and income inequality in Scotland

Poverty has blighted Scotland for generations – and continues to hold too many of our people back from achieving their potential. It is unacceptable that, in Scotland, the wealth of a child’s family should determine their chance of enjoying the kind of positive future that should be their right. It is also unacceptable that, because of a lack of income, older people can be deprived of the right to live in dignity – or that families can be dragged into a cycle of deprivation.