I attended the final session of the Poverty Truth Commission in Glasgow – along with 400 others. The day consisted of moving testimonies from people living through poor circumstances and outlining the importance of including them in the process of improvement and meeting the challenges of inequality – the Commission tag-line is “nothing about us, without us is for us”. For those involved in was obviously an empowering process and it will be interesting to see what are the longer- term impacts of such an approach.