Priorities | How we will achieve this |
Tackle the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, including child poverty
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- Work with key partners to further develop support available at the earliest possible points for children and young people
- Ongoing promotion of supports such as the Best Start Grant, Young Person's bus pass
- Break down the barriers to affordable transport
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Understand the impact of the pandemic on services and communities and use learning to mitigate the harm caused
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- Build on the community resilience that worked so well through the Pandemic to redouble our efforts to tackle economic and health inequalities in our communities
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Take action to support those most affected by increases in the cost of living
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- Utilise cost of living balances to implement proposals to mitigate cost of living challenges for those most in need
- Implement a cost of living communications engagement campaign
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Develop high quality new social housing and invest in existing stock to ensure everyone has access to good quality, energy efficient housing, within safe, healthy and vibrant communities
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- Manage delivery of the Strategic Housing Investment plan to increase supply of affordable housing
- Manage existing housing stock to accommodate housing need
- Make best use of community resources to create vibrant empowered communities and increase tenant involvement
- Develop supported living accommodation and increase supply of social rented housing suitable for older people
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Provide good quality advice and assistance to tenants and ensure they are settled in their homes and linked in to all appropriate partnership services and community supports
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- Rapidly rehouse people and families who are at risk of, or who are experiencing homelessness
- Provide support to tenants to enable tenancy sustainment
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Continue to deliver healthy, sustainable and locally sourced food in schools and work with partners and suppliers to provide a range of community food options
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- Continue to roll out free school meals and early years expansion
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Promote digital inclusion and increase digital participation
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- Work to maximise opportunities arising from future phases of programmes such as the Connecting Scotland programme
- Use key data and insight to develop a Digital Exclusion Risk Index to better understand communities at risk of digital exclusion and adopt an evidenced based pathway to tackle digital exclusion
- Support communities with the transition to digital and develop learning opportunities to boost digital know-how
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Ensure that financial inclusion services have maximum reach to tackle poverty and provide early advice and support
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- Ensure financial inclusion services have maximum reach
- Work with Social Security Scotland to tackle child poverty and provide up-stream, early advice and support through children’s health services
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