The charity One Parent Families Scotland is appealing for donations to help struggling single parents overcome the stress and financial strain of the festival season

Tory child poverty record condemned by opposition parties on the campaign trail

Living Rent urges a new approach to tackling the worst effects of Universal Credit

New research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds that changing poverty levels are largely the result of UK policies — but the Scottish Government has the power to act

A REPORT published this week by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on ‘Poverty in Scotland 2019’ has called for “more ambition and action” from the Scottish Government to address rising poverty levels.

The Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland warned that welfare reforms threaten the Scottish Government’s Housing First agenda

While calling for the devolution of welfare powers, the Scottish Unemployed Workers Network says more can be done by the Scottish Government

Labour need to stop “weaponising” the two-child policy against the SNP and work with the Scottish Government, Aileen Campbell argued

SCOTTISH COMMUNITIES MINISTER Aileen Campbell condemned the “systemic failings” of Tory welfare reforms in her ministerial statement on UN Special Rapporteur Professor Philip Alston’s recently published report on UK poverty and human rights.

Tory welfare cuts will result in £3.7b reduction of social security spending in Scotland

THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT united against both the Scottish Conservatives and the UK Government during a debate on the impact of Universal Credit and Tory welfare cuts on those in poverty in Holyrood today [6 November].

The debate comes as the United Nations special investigator on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, begins a two-week inquiry into the impact of austerity in the UK and its effect on human rights.