Left Out and Locked Down: impacts of covid-19 lockdown for marginalised groups in Scotland. (December 2020)
This research project is focussing on four groups that may already have been isolated, excluded or marginalised prior to Covid-19. The research is organised into work streams for each of these populations.
The groups include:
Disabilities and long-term health conditions
Domestic abuse and sexual violence victim-survivors
Imprisonment and criminal justice supervision
Refugees, asylum seekers and destitution-facing populations
This report was conducted between July and December 2020. The report covers all four study areas and reports on issues relating to information, experiences and services.
Key findings:
Information serves as a gatekeeper to people’s ability to navigate the risks of Covid-19 as well as a mediator for how people think or feel about these risks.
Experiences varied but a shared theme was of lives of both continuity of pre-existing hardship, and change in terms of intensifying challenge through growing constraint of already circumscribed lives.
Services were stopped, slowed, or contracted, despite need expanding and intensifying.
