The Scottish Government and COSLA-led Tackling Poverty Board was established to take an overview of the implementation of Achieving our Potential, as well as to consider broader approaches to tackling poverty in Scotland.  It consists of senior and influential individuals from local authorities, the third sector, the private sector, the NHS, COSLA and Scottish Government.

Recommendations in its statement include:

Central and local government must further embed early intervention and prevention into core service delivery … Reducing demand for services by acting to prevent incidences of poverty is cost effective to both service deliverers and, more importantly, to households at risk.

We must continue to promote and support local innovation, leadership, participation and improvement and to meaningfully engage with local communities in designing service provision.  We need to ‘sustain momentum in the co-production approach with Scottish Government, COSLA and service users but we must not underestimate the resources needed to include people effectively’ (quoting the Equally Well Review)