Bringing Hope, Building Futures: Tackling child poverty delivery plan 2026-2031 – annex 9: Fairer Scotland Duty Impact Assessment (FSDIA)

Other marginalised groups at risk of poverty

Over time our understanding of people’s experiences of poverty has broadened. Beyond the experiences of the priority groups that official statistics can identify, there is a wide range of evidence highlighting other disadvantaged groups who also face specific barriers. These include:

• People facing homelessness
• Gypsy/Travellers
• Victims/Survivors of domestic abuse
• Families of people in prison
• Care experienced people
• Seeking asylum and refugees

Many of these disadvantaged families face particularly complex circumstances because of multiple adversities. These can include stigma, trauma, marginalisation or mental health problems, and many families will fall into various disadvantaged groups, including existing priority family types.

Scottish Government’s focus report on other marginalised groups at risk of poverty looks at these other marginalised groups at risk of poverty, providing an evidence review on barriers across the three drivers of poverty and available evidence on what works.