In the afternoon, we’ll be discussing how we keep hopeful for change with Amal Azzudin, Claire Telfer of Save the Children and Jonathan Cox of Citizens UK.

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In the morning, you will hear a keynote address from Danny Sriskandarajah of New Economics Foundation, alongside input from Roz Foyer of the STUC and Laura Young.

We’ll be talking about what we’ve learned from campaigns to-date, where we go next, and how we build new coalitions for change.

Tax Justice Scotland’s message to first minister John Swinney, finance minister Shona Robison and leaders of other parties is “it’s increasingly clear that fairer — and sometimes higher — taxes are essential to support a more dynamic, prosperous and sustainable economy”.

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It’s disappointing that sanctions feature so strongly today - it’s like your employer sitting you down on your first day of a new job and outlining all the ways you can be sacked. Sanctions cause stress, anxiety & make it harder for people to get into work. It’s time for engagement, not compliance.

We agree that Job Centres needs to focus on person-centered support. But research from NEF shows that this requires trust: 61% of people required to attend regular JCP appts say threat of sanctions make it harder to have a supportive relationship with the Job Centre. neweconomics.org/2023/08/from...

I need more detail on what constitutes a butter appropriate knife, and you have to copyright that term!

Going to be hard to maintain this standard of post