Showcase Event - Tackling Financial Disadvantage in Migrant Households EDINBURGH

At this showcase event, Migration Policy Scotland, partners and colleagues will share the learning and outcomes emerging from two years of work identifying the barriers and challenges that underpin poverty and financial disadvantage in migrant households.

The showcase includes Pathfinder Initiatives emerging from collaboration with frontline service and support organisations in MPS’ innovative policy laboratory

Join us to hear about and reflect further on policy recommendations and practical interventions to tackle barriers and improve access to routes out of poverty and financial disadvantage.

Programme

10:00 - Registration

10:15 - Welcome

10:30 - Presenting the Tackling Disadvantage Project (Migration Policy Scotland)

10:50 - Expert Panel – The wider context of anti-poverty work in Scotland (Poverty and Inequality Commission, Poverty Alliance, Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

12:00 - Lunch

13:00 - Pathfinders and Partnerships: Outcomes of the Policy Laboratory (Migration Policy Scotland and partners)

14:30 - Coffee break

15:00 - Funders’ Roundtable (National Lottery Community Fund, The Robertson Trust, Corra Foundation, abrdn Financial Fairness Trust)

16:00 - Close

Please note this event is in-person only. We regret that we are unable to provide hybrid attendance.

If you have any specialist dietary or access requirements, please indicate these when registering.

Information about conference centre facilities can be found here: COSLA Conference Centre | COSLA

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