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Poverty and inequality on the rise in Scotland
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.
Linlithgow MSP welcomes report which shows decline in child poverty in Scotland
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One in five living in poverty in Scotland as income inequality rises
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 ...
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Here’s why tackling child poverty matters
Scotland won’t reach its full potential until everyone has the opportunity to flourish. Poverty leads to lower achievement at school; resources are needed to repair the damage caused when a child is ...
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Scotland’s promise to abolish two-child benefit cap expected to reduce child poverty by 2029
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 ...
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Children's rights in Scotland
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 ...
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First Minister’s John Swinney’s speech on eradicating child poverty in Scotland
Too many people and communities left behind. My final reason for choosing the eradication of child poverty as my government’s most important priority is what it says about the sort of country that ...
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Swinney: Child poverty can't be eradicated overnight
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 ...
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Swinney won't say no child poverty reduction is 'failure'
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 ...
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Angela Rayner insists tackling child poverty in Scotland needs more than 'one little slogan'
Work to reduce child poverty involves more than scrapping the ... areas which they have complete control over and are failing Scotland’s children.” ...
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Swinney seeks to speed up action to scrap two-child cap in Scotland
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 ...