Cost of Living Crisis Padlet by Scotdec

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This Padlet is designed to support our anytime learning resource exploring the Cost of Living Crisis.

Scotdec works within the IDEAS network to advocate for learning around poverty and inequality. Using participatory learning methodologies enables young people to enhance key skills and values to develop greater curiosity about the world and feel greater agency for positive change.

kate125 — 2024-04-04 10:08:18 UTC

Section 1 provides background information to support professional understanding of poverty and inequality, including stories and research.

Section 2 profiles innovative organisations that work to tackle poverty and inequality. We have included these as they offer inspiring case studies to share with learners and encourage a hopeful vision for the future.

Sections 3 and 4 offer Global Citizenship resources for the Primary and Secondary classroom to explore these issues with learners.

Pants To Poverty Primary Resource

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Maths resource for BGE

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Absolute and relative poverty

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There tends to be a heavy focus on the idea of absolute poverty, but it is also useful to think about relative poverty.

What do we all need to thrive?

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Oxfam resource.

TED TALK - why is it so hard to escape poverty?

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Helps to think about why some people have difficulty in escaping poverty.

World Bank

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Insightful data, specifically the figures included throughout on changes in different types of poverty.

SDG Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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UN examples of inequality and gives an insight as to why it should be reduced, and how it can be tackled Provides a summarised infographic.

SDG Goal 1: No poverty

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Provides impactful visual. It explains why ending poverty has been difficult to reach. Interactive opportunity for pupils to show how poverty levels change.

CPAG - Cost of the School Day Toolkit

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Helps all members of your school community to join the discussion about the barriers costs create and how to tackle them.

CPAG - E-Learning course

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eLearning course is for anyone who has an interest in reducing costs to families, supporting learners and promoting equity in education.

CPAG - Cost of the School Day Ideas Bank

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Hey Girls - Period Poverty

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Runnymede Trust - Structural Racism and Poverty in the UK

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Black and minority ethnic people are 2.5 times more likely to be in poverty than white people.

CHAI (Community Help & Advice initiative)

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Supports and empowers people and communities across Edinburgh through free, confidential, high-quality, impartial advice, information and representation on welfare benefits, money, housing and employability.

Social Enterprise Academy

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Giving young people a real-life experience of running their own social enterprise in school.

Together Scotland - Children's Rights

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Together is an alliance of Scottish children's charities that works to improve the awareness, understanding and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Cyrenians - Tackling the causes and consequences of homelessness

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Re-Use Scotland - a social enterprise

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Works with Local Authorities, corporate partners and thousands of households to keep good reusable materials out of landfill for community benefit. This is a true local circular economy in action.

Film Focus - short films with learning templates

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A number of these short films focus on SDG 1: No Poverty.

A Fair Share: A simulation game for 7-14 year olds exploring tax

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Learners start to increase their awareness of what tax is, how the money is spent, and our shared responsibility for public services.

Saving Whom? Lesson plans

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A series of lessons to support learners to critically interrogate the historical roots of humanitarianism and foreign aid.

Practical Action - STEM lesson plans

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Free science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) resources to engage pupils in real world issues including climate change, renewable energy, food security and disaster preparedness.

Oxfam

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Data and stories about how the gap between rich and poor grows wider every year and leads to huge differences in life chances globally.

If we have missed anything...

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Please get in touch by emailing Jennifer@Scotdec.org.uk. We love hearing about resources you love or organisations that are doing extraordinary things!

Oxfam Education

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Library of resources to search

Oxfam Education

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Library of resources to search

Printable Toolkit for Young People

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This toolkit is designed to be used by young people to support them in taking action about local or global issues that they care about. It can be used in the context of The Cost of Living Crisis or any other context that they care about.

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