> If the projections – which use modelling from the IPPR think tank – are accurate, Scotland will continue to have the lowest rate of child poverty in the UK as well as the only one which is predicted to fall.
> “The Scottish Government has set themselves lofty ambitions, but the UK Government has also promised change but we need to see concerted efforts from UK Government, including on social security, to deliver the better society free from poverty that our children deserve.”
> The differences between Scotland and other parts of the UK are due, in part, to the implementation of the Scottish Child Payment, the JRF has said.
Scotland ahead of the game, but we could do so much more with more powers *ehem*. The people of consecutive UK Goverments over the last 300 years who do have those powers but haven’t done sh*t about it and instead filled their own pockets should be ashamed. But they won’t, because they don’t care.
Did we start off from a worse position? Article doesn’t explain this.
When will the SNP take responsibility for their actions? Oh, wait… nobody is calling on them to do that when they are doing something positive and better than rUK?
But they’re doing it deliberately.
Sarwar kicking off the new year by arguing that we were going in the wrong direction by increasing social security spending to lift people out of poverty sure looks like a choice.
The grim thing about this is this:
>Scotland will continue to have the lowest rate of child poverty in the UK as well as **the only one which is predicted to fall.**
Oh some good news for a change. That’s welcome
Lord George “Pishy Pants” Foulkes:
>The SNP are on a very dangerous tack. What they are doing is trying to build up a situation in Scotland where the services are manifestly better than south of the border in a number of areas.”
When asked whether that was a bad thing, Lord Foulkes replied:
>No, but they are doing it deliberately.
Progress predicted to outstrip? What does predicted progress even mean. Can we report on things that actually happen, and if that’s the case can we sort out our headlines?
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> If the projections – which use modelling from the IPPR think tank – are accurate, Scotland will continue to have the lowest rate of child poverty in the UK as well as the only one which is predicted to fall.
> “The Scottish Government has set themselves lofty ambitions, but the UK Government has also promised change but we need to see concerted efforts from UK Government, including on social security, to deliver the better society free from poverty that our children deserve.”
> The differences between Scotland and other parts of the UK are due, in part, to the implementation of the Scottish Child Payment, the JRF has said.
Scotland ahead of the game, but we could do so much more with more powers *ehem*. The people of consecutive UK Goverments over the last 300 years who do have those powers but haven’t done sh*t about it and instead filled their own pockets should be ashamed. But they won’t, because they don’t care.
Did we start off from a worse position? Article doesn’t explain this.
When will the SNP take responsibility for their actions? Oh, wait… nobody is calling on them to do that when they are doing something positive and better than rUK?
But they’re doing it deliberately.
Sarwar kicking off the new year by arguing that we were going in the wrong direction by increasing social security spending to lift people out of poverty sure looks like a choice.
The grim thing about this is this:
>Scotland will continue to have the lowest rate of child poverty in the UK as well as **the only one which is predicted to fall.**
Oh some good news for a change. That’s welcome
Lord George “Pishy Pants” Foulkes:
>The SNP are on a very dangerous tack. What they are doing is trying to build up a situation in Scotland where the services are manifestly better than south of the border in a number of areas.”
When asked whether that was a bad thing, Lord Foulkes replied:
>No, but they are doing it deliberately.
Progress predicted to outstrip? What does predicted progress even mean. Can we report on things that actually happen, and if that’s the case can we sort out our headlines?
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