POVERTY COMMISSION RECOMMENDS ADDITIONAL CASH TO HELP FAMILIES DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
A report published today recommends that an additional cash benefit should be introduced to help Scotland’s poorest families during the school holidays.
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Prominent blogger and campaigner Jack Monroe was in Edinburgh today to speak at the first annual public meeting of Scotland’s Poverty and Inequality Commission.
The author of blog and cookbook A Girl Called Jack joined other speakers to address an audience which included people with lived experience of poverty and inequality, frontline workers, campaigners, policy makers and members of the public.
Read moreJack Monroe addresses Poverty Commission’s first Public Meeting
The Poverty and Inequality Commission’s advice on the Scottish Government’s first Child Poverty Delivery Plan to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Social Security and Equalities following a letter of 21 September 2017 to the Commission Letter to Cabinet Secretary
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