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The Citizens Advice network in Scotland helped more than 23,000 families at risk from poverty in the past year, new data from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) reveals. The Scottish Government has identified several groups particularly vulnerable to child poverty, including single-parent families, fami

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Councillors will be asked to approve plans to create a Perth and Kinross Anti-Poverty Taskforce and new cost-of-living strategy to tackle poverty when they meet next week. They will also be asked to approve an additional £470,000 of funding to support those most in need over the winter period.

Housing charity Shelter Scotland has called on the Scottish Government to improve the support offered to tenants who have got into rent arrears during the pandemic in the wake of new statistics showing the high levels of poverty in Scotland were increasing even before the health crisis hit. Covering

Aberdeen City Council is to explore broadening the ways it can help residents overcome poverty. The council will consider making a £1 million fuel bill fund – set aside earlier this year – available for additional household costs.

A project to provide energy bill vouchers and further energy cost advice to eligible parents in Argyll and Bute is one of 21 projects that pilot approaches to help to eradicate child poverty and boost incomes that will be backed by almost £1.9 million across Scotland.

The continuing work to tackle poverty and inequalities has released more than £12.5 million to support people across Aberdeenshire in the past year, councillors have been told.  Details of work undertaken under the Tackling Poverty and Inequalities Strategic Partnership were presented to

The families of 326,080 children under 16 years of age were receiving vital support from Scottish Child Payment as of 31 December 2024, according to new figures. More £1 billion has now been paid to parents and carers since the payment was introduced in February 2021.

New analysis from IPPR Scotland has revealed that for the same price as a council tax freeze - which will do little to help the poorest households - the Scottish Government could have boosted the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) and lifted more children out of poverty.

The flagship family payment – Scottish Child Payment – has now doubled to £20 per week per child, with 104,000 children already benefiting from this increase. The payment, which is unique to Scotland, was designed to tackle child poverty head on. It is one of five family benefits t

Thousands of families are now receiving their first Scottish Child Payment. As of Sunday 28 February 52,000 applications had been approved.

Mark Macmillan Renfrewshire Council is to be the first local authority in Scotland to set up a child poverty fighting fund after councillors unanimously approved the allocation of the scheme.

Housing bodies have welcomed the UK Government's abolition of the two-child benefit cap but shared their disappointment that the freeze on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) was not scrapped for good.

New figures released this week have revealed that 326,255 children are actively benefiting from the Scottish Child Payment across the country. The Scottish Child Payment is unique to Scotland and provides financial support for families, helping with the costs of caring for a child. It is a monthly p