Professor John Robertson OBA
From the LSE two days ago, the above, being carefully ignored by the BBC and UK MSM, and:
Recent days have seen a round of cuts announced to social security, which the UK Government’s own impact assessment shows will increase poverty. But new analysis shows that the Westminster government could cut child poverty in the UK by a sixth if they were to match Scotland’s investment in social security. The analysis comes as the annual poverty statistics show that a growing gap is emerging between the poverty rates of Scottish children, when compared to those in the rest of the UK.
In a new briefing, the Changing Realities collaboration, led by Professor Ruth Patrick of the University of York and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), sets out how the UK Government could switch the dial on child poverty, and shares the priorities of change for parents living in poverty in the UK today.
The Scottish Government has provided targeted investment at families with children, including through the flagship Scottish Child Payment, which provides £26.70 per child per week for families on a low-income. This means that a family with three children would receive almost £5,500 more a year in household income than their English counterpart. If the UK Government were to match this investment (equivalent to £400 per child per year), they could reduce child poverty by 700,000 overnight. This would be equivalent to a reduction in child poverty of 5 percentage points.
Maybe the Daily Record will cover this? The Herald? Yeh, the Herald must be working on it. See:
Any sign? Let me know when they do?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
And of course the additional £5500 won’t be set aside in a savings account or off shore tax haven, it will be spent locally, in local shops or for local services helping to grow the economy as well as lifting people out of poverty. Seems like a no brainer to me!
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NEVER EVER EXPECT ANY HONEST AND TRUTHFUL REPORTING
OR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FROM SCOTLAND ONCE GREAT QUALITY PAPER
NOW SELLING ITS WARES TO THE HIGHEST BIDDERS
ARNOLD KEMP WOULD BE SCUNNERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DO THE ENGLISH GENERAL PUBLIC KNOW THEIR SODDIN LEADERS
ARE TRYING TO KILL THEM AS WELL
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Who trusts the Herald these days? Hell, hardly anyone even reads the Herald now. The great Ian Bell must be turning in his grave at the piece of trash it has become.
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