Putting lived experience of poverty at the heart of policy making- Our feature on Transforming Society
Poverty2Solutions member Tracey Herrington has written a piece for Transforming Society titled,
Putting lived experience of poverty at the heart of policy making.
“Policy and decision makers all too often have little or no comprehension of the precarious nature of the lives of those in low-income, disadvantaged and left-behind communities. Put bluntly, these communities are low on the political agenda; far too few people vote or have faith in the democratic processes that arguably are supposed to ensure communities are represented. The voice of low-income communities has, many a time, been ignored. The skills, knowledge and expertise contained in these communities is disregarded and deemed inadequate, and barriers have denied people access to mainstream debates.”
