This weekend marks the end of Challenge Poverty week. For over two decades campaigners, local authorities, faith groups, businesses, schools and colleges, trade unions and charities have come together to unite around one clear message: poverty has no place in a just and compassionate Scotland. 

The brutal impact that poverty has on people and places is known all too well by the expert advisers across the Citizens Advice network in Scotland. More than half of the near 200,000 people we support each year live in the most deprived communities in Scotland. People facing impossible choices as incomes do not cover the cost of the essentials that we all need. Failed by the structures and systems supposed to catch people at times of crisis. People like Fraser. 

Fraser left his job to become his wife’s full-time carer after........

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