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 ...

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 ...

As the JRF publishes its annual UK Poverty report today, new analysis shows that under central OBR projections, only Scotland will see child poverty rates fall by 2029, demonstrating the power of ...

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 ...

THE UK Government has been urged to “take a leaf out the Scottish Government’s book” to bring down child poverty. SNP MP Seamus Logan demanded that Labour look north of the Border for inspiration in ...

COMPARING Scotland’s child poverty rate (CPR) of around 24% with England’s 31% is quite pointless. Scotland with a population of about 5.4 million is a totally different nation to England and Wales, ...

Eighteen years after entering office with a high priority given to the ending of child poverty, it's proving to be tougher than it looked. The most recent figures suggest a quarter of Scotland's ...

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 ...