24% of children in Scotland were living in relative poverty in 2014-17, up 1% on 2013-16 and after housing costs, relative pensioner poverty was 13%, up 1% on the previous three-year period.

Scotland is the only country where child poverty rates are expected to fall by 2029, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF) annual poverty report. Scotland has promised to scrap the ...

Eradication of child poverty is the SNP Scottish Government’s number one priority. In the 1980s, Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher asserted there was no such thing as society. In our view that is ...

John Dickie, director of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland, said that struggling families could not wait years for the introduction of the Scottish government's promised income ...

There is a moral imperative – helping our most disadvantaged children is the right thing to do – but there is also an economic and a social imperative. Scotland will never reach its full potential ...

Although many of your rights are protected in Scotland, it’s important to remember not all of them are all the time. For example, lots of children grow up in poverty, and until recently children ...

Work to reduce child poverty involves more than scrapping the ... areas which they have complete control over and are failing Scotland’s children.” ...

Ahead of a major speech, he said: “I am under no illusions that we will be able to end child poverty in Scotland overnight. “It will take strong, collective action in the long-term – and ...

John Swinney refused to rule out seeing his leadership as a failure if his government failed to reduce child poverty rates in Scotland. The eradication of child poverty has been described as the ...

While he stressed there are “no easy solutions” to child poverty – which affects about one in four youngsters in Scotland – the SNP leader said he wants his government to work with ...