New poverty stats were out this morning and show…

-very little change in levels of poverty in Scotland
-we are almost certain to miss the Interim Scottish Child Poverty Targets

This thread will cover some of the key takeaways from today’s release 🧵

🚨 Child poverty should not be normalised 🚨

Today, new shocking figures from @DWPgovUK show 100,000 more children are living in poverty than last year. There's no excuse for children to go without food, warmth, or basic necessities.

It's time for the UK government to…

Today's child poverty statistics for Scotland are not what we hoped - or needed - to see.
We must not allow ourselves to become numb to this reality. 24% of children living in poverty in Scotland is not a status quo we should accept.

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'Today’s disappointing statistics should be a catalyst for further action across government.' Claire Telfer

Read our full response to the latest @ScotGov child poverty stats 👇

Poverty stats out and showing bad news, still 240k children locked in poverty. Interim child poverty targets now presumably will be missed.😡

The SG need to wake up and deliver on their stated commitment to poverty reduction and Parliament needs to hold them to account to do so

👏Great piece by Satwat Rehman talking about #SingleParentWeek .

👩‍👧‍👦Did you know that single parent families make up a quarter of all families in Scotland?

🥇This week is about giving recognition to how tough, yet rewarding being a single parent can be.

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thenational.scot/politics/24191…

'We cannot have a system that prioritises debt repayment over ensuring families can feed and clothe their children. The state must serve as a safety net, not a financial trap.' 👓👇about our Family Financial Wellbeing pilot in #Tayside . #DebtAwarenessWeek The Robertson Trust

You are being asked not to look away from this story

I spoke to the head of Scotland’s leading children’s charity about what poverty is doing to kids today

‘They face a daily struggle to survive. It’s intolerable. We cannot look away’

Listen to her heraldscotland.com/politics/24190…

📢We're thrilled to have joined forces Morgan Stanley & PEEK Possibilities for Each and Every Kid launching a 5 year partnership supporting families in the west hit hardest by the #CoLcrisis .

⭐️This partnership will support more than 8000 children aged 0-6 growing up in poverty in #Glasgow .

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#RamadanMubarak to everyone celebrating this month! 🌙

📢Alongside Joseph Rowntree Foundation we are proud to launch a 2 year project focused on the Scottish public’s attitudes to #childpoverty .

🟢With funding from The Robertson Trust, we aim to inspire public support around solutions that could help lift thousands of children out of poverty.

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For #IWD2024 team Save the Children Scotland are committing to #InspireInclusion When women, & men, support women amazing things happen. Proud to work alongside incredible women, who every day, have rebellious hope for a better, more inclusive world 🫶 👊

Poverty in Scotland is gendered: women are more likely to be living in poverty & find it harder to escape poverty.

For #InternationalWomensDay , we drafted a briefing based on our participation work outlining women's experiences of poverty in Scotland.

povertyalliance.org/iwd_24_briefin…

UK Gov's #SpringStatement will see Scottish Government receive £300m in Barnett consequentials. We were disappointed Scottish Government budget for 24/25 didn't include cash for increasing the Scottish Child Payment to £30. But these consequentials could fully fund the increase. A thread 🧵👇(1/4)

This is part of ⁦⁦One Parent Families Scotland’⁩ contribution to help keep The Promise to Scotland’s care experienced children, by addressing the systemic issues that can plunge families with children in or on the edges of care deeper into poverty. thepromise.scot/news/one-paren…

Lots of interest in this event about our Save the Children Scotland and Joseph Rowntree Foundation project to change attitudes on child poverty. If you want to be part the story sign up now 👇

FC Week 7 Counting and Estimating. 'I really like the way Families Connect teaches me things and gives me ideas about how to help my child to learn' 'This has really helped my parenting, we do so much more as a family now' Pollokshields PS Save the Children Scotland Glasgow's Improvement Challenge

“While children die from lack of food, their parents are being killed trying to get it for them”

There are horrifying reports of 100+ killed in #Gaza food aid queue and 760 injuries.

Civilians cannot be denied life-saving assistance, or killed trying to get help.…

Have had a look at the Cumulative Impact Assessment for child poverty and a few things to note. 🧵

The paragraph below is key👇

There are no new policy decisions since the last Assessment that impact on these numbers (since June 2023).

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Good that FM Humza Yousaf today reaffirmed Scottish Government commitment to reducing child poverty. New modelling shows the impact of this ongoing commitment: child poverty is predicted to fall to 16% in 2023/24. If the modelling bears out, our interim child poverty targets could be met🧵