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The largest rise was in Glasgow, which saw a 22% increase in applications, followed by Dundee with a 21% increase. ... First Minister John Swinney has declared the eradication of child poverty as ...
The Child Poverty Action Group said figures showed the Scottish Government is set to ‘fall far short’ of its legally binding goal. Target to reduce child poverty to 10% by 2030 still ...
The number of children in relative poverty after housing costs increased by a smaller amount than Sir Keir claimed – by 10,000 to 260,000 between March 2007 and March 2023.
The charity was founded in the late 19th century by the philanthropist William Quarrier, a shoe retailer from Glasgow.Quarrier began looking after homeless children in the 1870s, opening a night refuge for homeless children in Renfrew Street, Glasgow in 1871.
That same year, it was reported that 40% of Springburn's residents were living in poverty, the area's unemployment rate was 140% higher than Scotland's average, deaths from lung cancer was twice higher than the Scottish average and the proportion of children leaving school without Standard Grades was four times higher.
Despite this, poverty in children has still gone down significantly, going from about a third (34%) of all children living in poverty to what it is today (27%). In 2019, Full Fact found that the British poverty rate is "almost exactly the same level as the EU average (17%)", much lower than the DWP figures due to differences in calculation ...
Legislating a target for reducing child poverty may have looked like commitment to the cause, as it did for reduction of carbon emissions. That's until there is a reckoning, the policy fails and ...
The Glasgow effect is a contested term [1] ... cold winters, higher levels of poverty than the figures suggest, ... especially in children, affect the structure of ...