Child poverty affects one in four in Scotland

A QUARTER of children in Scotland are living in poverty amid a 92% surge in demand for financial advice, a leading charity has said.

As well as funding support workers, it also has a financial wellbeing team to help with budgeting, benefit checks and applications, charitable grants and debt management – and said the workload had doubled for debt management in the past year.Demand for financial wellbeing advisers also surged, with more than 1500 children needing assistance since April 2023, an increase of 92% from April 2022.

The charity said that it was able to help generate an extra £1.7 million for hard-up families, through unclaimed benefits, grants and budgeting since April 2023, doubling the amount generated in 2022-23.A mother who received support said she was now able to do grocery shopping regularly. “Recent modelling estimates Scottish Government policies, including the game-changing Scottish Child Payment, will keep 100,000 children out of relative poverty in the coming year.

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