15 h. ago Nearly one in four West Lothian children living in poverty is 'mark of shame'

Despite the shocking statistics laid before the council’s Corporate Policy and Resources PDSP, the baseline level of child poverty has marginally improved since the last years of the pandemic.

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25 h. ago Child poverty target on course to be missed by 'large margin'

Call for increase in social security spending as levels ‘largely the same’ as they were five years ago

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27 h. ago Child poverty levels in Scotland 'largely the same' despite SNP Government focus on issue

Housing costs and a lack of free nursery places are being blamed for keeping Scots families in poverty.

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27 h. ago All parties should unite to tackle Scotland's child poverty plight

Record View says serious investment is also needed.

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38 h. ago European football: Sevilla’s Alexis Sánchez launches rout of Barcelona

Former Arsenal forward opens scoring in 4-1 thrashingRashford on target but Lewandowski misses penaltySevilla thrashed Barcelona 4-1 on Sunday, ending the champions’ unbeaten start in La Liga and denying them an opportunity to return to the top of the table.Sevilla took the lead in the 13th minute, after Isaac Romero went down while jostling for the ball with Ronald Araújo near Barcelona’s six-yard box. Alexis Sánchez sent former Arsenal teammate Wojciech Szczesny the wrong way to convert the spot kick.This story will be updated Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Russia's relationship with the US gets 'fiery' as Kremlin accuses the White House of helping Ukraine target its energy infrastructure

Russia last night accused the US of helping Ukraine target pits energy infrastructure by providing intelligence for Ukrainian long-range missile strikes deep inside the country.

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4 d. ago Aberdeen to miss out on director of football target as struggling Bundesliga giants step in

Borussia Monchengladbach want to name Lutz Pfannenstiel as their new sporting director

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6 d. ago Bridget Phillipson says scrapping two child benefit cap is ‘definitely on the table’

The education secretary argued there is ‘absolutely’ more to do when it comes to tackling child poverty, adding that she will ‘make it happen’

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8 d. ago Wishaw MSP welcomes First Minister’s commitment to eradicating child poverty

The programme brings together local services in childcare, education, health, housing and employment to deliver joined-up, whole-family support.

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9 d. ago Why Rodri is missing for Man City vs Burnley as new target set

Manchester City are back at the Etihad to play Burnley but there will be no Rodri in the squad

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1 week ago Almond Valley MSP welcomes First Minister’s commitment to eradicating child poverty

The programme brings together local services in childcare, education, health, housing and employment to deliver joined-up, whole-family support.

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1 week ago Rachel Reeves urged by 100 Labour MPs to hike gambling taxes to fight child poverty

More than 100 Labour MPs have backed calls made by Gordon Brown to target tax hikes on highly profitable parts of the gambling industry - such as online casinos and slot machines

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1 week ago ‘Near impossible’ for poorer families to afford food and bills as UK faces decade of falling incomes, report warns

The findings will pile further pressure on the chancellor to scrap the two-child benefit cap long blamed for keeping children in poverty

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1 week ago Raising kids in poverty: The UK’s ‘inhumane’ two child limit

Child poverty in the UK is now at record levels, with 4.5 million kids living in poverty. One of the biggest drivers of this is the controversial two limit child policy, which caps universal credit and tax credits to a family’s first two children . With the Labour government’s Child Poverty Strategy due imminently, many charities and campaigners have called for this brutal policy to be scrapped, but what’s life actually like for mums under the limit and will the government listen to growing calls to abolish the austerity-era policy? Journalist and poverty campaigner Terri White speaks to women in her area of greater Manchester to find out. Continue reading...

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1 week ago John Swinney 'all talk' on tackling child poverty as First Minister admits there is 'more we have to do'

The SNP leader said child poverty levels in Scotland are "lower than they were 30 years ago" and hailed "progress" on the issue.

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2 w. ago Labour should consider hiking gambling tax to fight child poverty, Lucy Powell says

Deputy leadership hopeful Lucy Powell said Gordon Brown's proposal to hike gambling tax to fund axing the two-child benefit limit should get 'careful consideration'

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2 w. ago Child poverty levels reduce in North Ayrshire say new figures

The council said it would not rest on its laurels despite the positive trend.

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2 w. ago Voices: Surprise, surprise – Labour is reaping what it has sown

Instead of addressing child poverty, homelessness, poor working conditions or any of the real issues impacting this country, Labour has chosen to deflect the blame and pour billions into arms, says Jeremy Corbyn. Britain is tired of having no political choice – and we’re here to fix that

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3 w. ago Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown

Homes without heating, bedrooms with beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisiveRun-down housing estates in Britain’s former industrial heartlands remind us of the poverty described by George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier in 1937 – but these days there is no Orwell to chronicle what the arithmetic of deprivation means for families condemned to lives of poverty.Millions of children, as the children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, told us this summer, are faring very badly, living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty”. And what she calls the striking awareness children have of being poor requires us to find a modern-day Dickens to hear their voices.Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010 Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Failure to tackle dependence on food banks in UK driving public discontent

One in six households went hungry last year, says Trussell, with Britain facing ‘new normal’ of severe hardshipDowning Street’s failure to tackle child poverty and reduce food bank use is helping to drive public discontent with falling living standards and fuelling a desire for political alternatives, the UK’s biggest charity food provider has warned.Trussell said one in six UK households went hungry last year and, without ambitious policies to tackle deepening poverty, Britain faces the prospect of locking in a “new normal” of increasingly severe hardship across society. Continue reading...

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