Spotlight Podcast 5.5: Child Poverty and The Public Debt Crisis
Published: 24 March 2025
Event recording
Professor Kezia Dugdale hosted a political panel on poverty, public debt, and governance, featuring key Scottish policymakers and research by Professor Morag Treanor.
Our Associate Director, Prof Kezia Dugdale hosted a political panel discussion, asking all the major parties in Scotland what we can expect to see from them in the run up to the election on issues of poverty, public debt and the multi-level governance challenges at play.
During the panel we heard from the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Shirley-Anne Somerville; Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP; Cllr Blair Anderson; Miles Briggs MSP; and Paul O’Kane MSP.
This was a joint conference the Centre for Public Policy hosted with Aberlour Children's Charity, centered on research with Professor Morag Treanor on how public debt practices can worsen families' experience of poverty.
First published: 24 March 2025