Challenge Poverty Week 2015

Challenge Poverty Week is centred around the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which took place on 17th October. This year Challenge Poverty Week runs from 17^th to 23^rd October.

The key themes highlighted by the campaign are: raising awareness of the reality of poverty, and challenging stereotypes; highlighting what’s being done in Scotland to help alleviate poverty; and increasing public support for more action to combat poverty.

Lorna Kelly, Associate Director of the GCPH, commented on how our work on population health and inequalities relates to poverty in Scotland:

The impact of poverty pervades all of the GCPH’s work programmes. The short and long term effects of poverty on health are clear at an individual, household and neighbourhood level. Challenge Poverty Week challenges all organisations to continue to highlight the effects of poverty, to know who is most affected and why, to advocate for change and to respond quickly to new challenges such as rising in-work poverty and the impacts of welfare reform.

We’ll be tweeting out key facts about poverty in Glasgow and Scotland this week and highlighting key work happening in Scotland and beyond to challenge poverty – you can follow us @theGCPH

Read James Egan's blog - Reflections on poverty.

Access data on poverty in Glasgow and Scotland on the Understanding Glasgow health and wellbeing indicators website.