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From the Scottish Government today:
The First Minister has welcomed analysis which estimates 100,000 children will be kept out of relative poverty in 2024-25 as a result of Scottish Government policies.
Updated modelling of the cumulative impact of policies such as the Scottish Child Payment indicates the relative child poverty rate will be 10 percentage points lower than it would otherwise have been.
Speaking after joining a Book Bug session at Drum Brae Library Hub in Edinburgh with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Mr Yousaf highlighted estimates in the report of the impact the UK Government could have on child poverty, if it were to bring in selected welfare changes alongside the Scottish Government’s actions.
These show that removing the two-child limit and reinstating the family element in Universal Credit – worth £545 per family in 2017 – could lead to an estimated further 10,000 fewer children in Scotland living in poverty in 2024-25. Meanwhile, introducing an Essentials Guarantee to ensure Universal Credit is always enough to meet people’s basic needs could lead to 30,000 fewer children experiencing poverty.
Keeping 100,000 children out of poverty – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
The modelling explained here: https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781835219850
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Tory spokesman – couldn’t give tuppence for kids in poverty what a disgusting individual
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That is great news. The kind of society people want to be in. Eradicating poverty.
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Labour tribalist and pompous patronising posh woman in an article today recognised in a very oblique and potentially misleading way that the Scottish Government’s additional child benefit has lifted significant numbers of children out of poverty. She does not actually mention the Scottish Government or the SNP – she never does if it entails acknowledging good things. She says that in order to win seats from the SNP, Labour could offer £25 per week per child. She does not actually acknowledge that this is what has been in place for a number of years nor affirm that the numbers she quotes are the actual numbers which various child poverty charities have estimated as the number of children actually benefitting.
Alasdair Macdonald
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