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Deputy First Minister John Swinney set out the 2023/24 budget in Holyrood.

John Swinney announced the move in his budget statement to Holyrood on Thursday.

The cafe is due to open in 2023, but on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day the new premises will open its doors to people experiencing homelessness and poverty in to enjoy a hot Christmas dinner.

NICOLA Sturgeon noted how “it’s always really striking how uncomfortable the Scottish Conservatives get when poverty gets mentioned” during…

Letter: Seasonal food bank appeals and millions of emergency food parcels cannot tackle escalating food insecurity – we need living incomes now, writes Sabine Goodwin

The poorest 20% of households are aided significantly by services like education and health. But the stage-three tax cuts threatens their funding

No one can deny that the economic crisis in Syria is unprecedented. But what are the real reasons for it? Why isn’t Iran helping in resolving it as it had helped the regime throughout the past decade? And will that lead to “political concessions” from Damascus? The economic crisis in…

Special Report: The teacher spotting the signs that pupils haven’t eaten. The GP who put a food bank in his surgery. The teams knocking on thousands of doors to offer any help they can. Oldham is already one of the country’s most destitute areas, and things are getting worse. Colin…

Pope Francis has said that he has seen “greater omens of greater destruction and desolation” with the world in a perilous position from war, poverty and injustice

The Green Party leader has launched a new €10m hardship fund as part of the Energy Poverty Action plan

It isn’t often that theology makes headlines. But for the past 50 years, a way of thinking about God and poverty has been doing just that: liberation theology.