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Renfrewshire MSP slams Tory candidates for "silence" on child poverty

Families are struggling to pay for basic needs such as shoes and many are relying on food banks to feed their families

Daily Record

Lanarkshire MSP hits out at Tory leadership candidates' 'silence' over child poverty

Fulton MacGregor claims 'progress is being undermined by decades of Westminster austerity policies'

Daily Record

Slovenia army starts removing Croatia border razor wire

The Slovenian army has started removing a razor wire fence on the border with Croatia that was put up to curb migrant crossings after more than a million people fleeing violence and poverty entered Europe in a huge migration wave in 2015

The Independent UK

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Thousands of kids living in poverty across Stirling as report lays bare true scale of issue

The report also reveals that around 200,000 children were in poverty in Scotland in 2021.

Daily Record

Where food is a luxury: Turkey struggles to survive as inflation rises to over 74 per cent

One subsidised restaurant seeks to help Turks facing escalating living costs. But such acts do little against a soaring inflation rate

The Independent UK

Desperate North East families forced to go without fridge-freezers as energy bills soar

Poverty groups are warning the situation will 'get even worse' this winter with foodbanks being 'overwhelmed'

Chronicle Live

New 'extremely worrying' child poverty stats details worst hit areas where Ayrshire kids are living below breadline

The figures come from the End Child Poverty Coalition and have been met with dismay.

Daily Record

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Worried about high energy bills, some Canadians risk discomfort, illness and even death

Almost one in 10 Canadian households spend more than 10 per cent of their income to heat and cool their homes, keep the lights on and to store or cook food. For these households, the high cost of energy, which includes electricity, natural gas, heating oil and propane, means they…

The Conversation

One in 12 UK children now in families hit by two-child benefit limit

DWP data shows 1.3m children affected by limit as research shows risk of long-lasting harm increasing due to cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

Millions of families face hygiene poverty as summer holidays loom, says charity

Parents are sacrificing hygiene essentials to ensure their children do not go without as they struggle to cope with rising prices, a charity has warned.

Evening Standard

Railways land encroachment in Gujarat: Being below poverty line no excuse to not abide by law, says Supreme Court

Surat-Udhna to Jalgaon Railway line project in Gujarat was still incomplete because of the unauthorised structures standing on the Railway property to the extent of 2.65 kilometres

The Hindu

‘People are waking up’: fight widens to stop new North Sea fossil fuel drilling

From trade unions to a bishop, activists are uniting to keep the UK government to its North Sea climate commitments

The Guardian - UK

Spanish response to COVID poverty was too little, too late, report says

Human Rights Watch says pandemic exacerbated weaknesses in country’s social security system

The Guardian - UK

Colombia’s incoming finance minister wants fair capitalism

Colombia’s next finance minister says the left-leaning government taking office next month will focus on increasing taxes on the rich so it can spend more on poverty programs

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Benefit cuts since 2010 increased UK child poverty in run-up to pandemic, says IFS

Austerity-era policies meant poverty among larger families in poverty rose at significantly faster rate, says thinktank

The National (Scotland)

SNP demand action as report finds Tory benefit cuts pushed children into poverty

THE SNP are urging action over a new report that found Tory benefit cuts have pushed a significant number of children into poverty.

The Independent UK

Share of children in material deprivation ‘fell by a quarter before pandemic’

Relative child poverty rose over the same period, the Institute for Fiscal Studies found.

Daily Mirror

Hard-up Brits forced to swap shampoo for washing-up liquid as prices soar

Charity Freedom4Girls, which tackles period poverty, said the situation is 'absolutely heartbreaking' as they are seeing increasing demand for basic items such as shampoo and soap

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Daily Record

Over 7000 West Lothian kids living in poverty as cost of living crisis bites

West Lothian Council has set out an action plan to help tackle childhood poverty

The Independent UK

‘Left behind’ neighbourhoods ‘will be hardest hit by cost-of-living crisis’

These are typically located in post-industrial areas in the East and West Midlands and north of England, as well as coastal areas in the South East.

Manchester Evening News

The Northern Agenda: 'We need a Minister for the North'

Senior Tory's demand to leadership candidates as race to be the next PM hots up

Chronicle Live

'It will only get worse' – Fears mount after shocking report reveals scale of North East child poverty crisis

The North East has been named this week as the UK's new child poverty capital, overtaking London after a substantial rise in deprivation since 2014

Daily Record

Fans Supporting Foodbanks Scotland urges football lovers to unite against poverty

Fans Supporting Foodbanks Scotland (FSFS) is borne out of the idea that football fans can come together, even if they back different teams, to support good causes.

AAP

NDIS less help in remote WA, inquiry told

A royal commission has been told there is less support for disabled people in a remote WA town under the NDIS compared with the old state-based system.

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Child poverty hotspot

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