if he misses the Government’s child poverty reduction target. The Scottish Government is publishing its ‘Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan for the next five years. Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said the Government’s plans will focus on ‘tackling the root causes of child poverty. Anti-poverty charities say progress ahs been made but there is still significant distance between where we are now and targets which are meant to be met by 2030. Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON BBC Reporting Scotland in the BBC … Continue reading Do BBC Scotland’s unnamed ‘anti-poverty charities’ doubting that John Swinney’s child poverty targets will be met, five years from now, include the one whose head says the revolutionary Child Payment and SNP’s commitment to reverse two-child limit is just ‘doing the same things day after day’ as she continues to campaign for Labour and aims for an honour like Pam Duncan Glancy

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Many thanks to cuckooshoe for reminding us of the above and seeing through what the London-based IFS is up to in this election period. Source: https://www.sqainternational.org.uk/sqa/114509.html The earlier TuS posts on this topic: Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Continue reading Why the London lads at the IFS are regurgitating the unreliable 2022 Pisa results and trying to forget the 2025 ‘landmark year’ in an election year

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The Ferret reveals today: A Ferret investigation has found there was no registration to sell vapes at the Union Street premises in Glasgow where a major fire started – and we can reveal the name of the company behind the shop. https://www.theferret.scot/revealed-company-behind-vape-shop-fire-had-not-paying-business-rates-or-registered-to-sell-vapes/ Can Scotland do anything about these clearly dangerous sales from high street shops in areas frequented by the vulnerable, the very young and the elderly? No. Why? The United Kingdom Internal Market 2020 legislation was designed … Continue reading The UK Internal Market Act means that Scotland cannot prevent the sale of dangerous vapes in shops

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The unconvincingly ‘Scottish’ edition of the Daily Express has a story today about lawyers represented the bereaved trying to get some compensation for them, by misrepresenting the truth of how the Scottish Government performed, once it had control of the pandemic strategy. You can either watch a two minute video account or read the longer version with evidence sources below, or do both. Here’s the video: Here’s the fuller account: Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or … Continue reading As ambulance-chasing lawyers circle, how the Scottish Government kept excess mortality here at one third lower than the UK average, saving thousands, despite the delay in devolving responsibility and PM Johnson’s callous inertia – saving thousands of lives