The Herald highlighting our new work showing the extent of families with children trying to get by well below the poverty line. We’ve heard lots about people feeling left behind by politics, well here you go. Want to restore faith in politics? Fix this.

Around 80,000 children - the equivalent of all children 16 and under in Edinburgh - are living in very deep poverty. The next Scottish Government needs to radically change the game if they are to reach the 2030 child poverty reduction targets.

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🚨 Latest Department for Work and Pensions estimates show 3.2m families across the UK will lose income under the current plans to cut disability benefits by 2029/2030. 700,000 will be families already in relative poverty when taking housing costs into account. Read more: theguardian.com/society/2025/m… 1/2

“The cost-effective way of getting more children out of poverty… is abolishing the two-child limit.” Former PM Gordon Brown calls on the government to drop the two-child benefit cap, arguing that there has been “a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem” #Peston

What does poverty really look like in Wales today? Join the Bevan Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Tuesday 10 June as we unpack the latest Poverty in Wales report. Register here 👉 ow.ly/1KrZ50VZaAW

240,000 children are in poverty in Scotland. They are the reason the child poverty reduction targets are so important. Today @JRF_uk have published a toolkit to ensure each party's manifesto is up to the task of meeting the targets.

🚨 NEW: 80% of Keir Starmer's Cabinet represent constituencies with higher than average child poverty rates, new analysis from Loughborough University for the End Child Poverty Coalition has found. The report also found an “extremely high correlation” between the two-child limit to

Govt just published the Bill to cut disability benefits for > 3 million people, revealing that mitigations for those with the most severe conditions ministers have been telling MPs about will protect only up to 10% of new claimants from a halving of UC's health element 1/5

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Much of the Government's intention for cutting PIP and UC is to motivate people to find a job But cutting social security can't 'incentivise' people into jobs that don't exist New Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis shows there are simply too few jobs for the Government's argument to hold

Nursery availability is lowest in England’s most deprived neighbourhoods 📢 The govt must make sure disadvantaged families can access good childcare – and ensure providers are financially stable to prevent closures Read IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society report funded by JRF: ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jun/….

Today Govt confirmed changes it will make to planned cuts to disability benefits. But Govt will still ask MPs to vote for large, arbitrary cuts to disabled people’s incomes that will increase poverty. The Bill should be opposed. Here’s why. 1/7

I have just retweeted the LFG Manchester retweeted of the fantastic The Mill piece on Greater Manchester's outperformance on productivity. But of course I now follow up with a bit of a precision. The graph in the piece is England, that matters. manchestermill.co.uk/andrew-mcphill…

Scots are 'tired and angry' as politicians called on to listen to public concerns about the future. Great coverage of #ScotlandDemandsBetter in today's Daily Record. #WeDemandBetter dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

Over 7 million low-income households were going without essentials in the 6 months to May 🚨 This number has been at least 7 million since Oct 2022. The Govt must boost living standards so that low-income families can finally feel some reprieve. jrf.org.uk/cost-of-living….

New job alert 📢 We're hiring a Senior Policy Advisor for our Scotland office. If you believe as passionately as we do that we can deliver a fairer Scotland free from poverty then this job could be for you. 🔽 1/3

🌟We’re thrilled to announce that Everton are the first Premier League football club to achieve Living Pension accreditation! Congratulations to the Toffees for leading the way and proving that true champions look after their people🙌 Read more: livingwage.org.uk/news/everton-b…

We’ve got some great jobs going One Parent Families Scotland. Please do take a look. We’re a lovely group of people to work with. Looking for a Head of Corporate Services and a Head of Policy, Strategy and Comms to join our Senior Leadership Team. opfs.org.uk/get-involved...

📢Big opportunity alert! 📢 Join Oxfam Scotland as our new Advocacy Advisor and help build a fairer Scotland. If you know the Scottish political landscape and want to drive lasting change on poverty & inequality, this is your chance. Apply by 7 Sept bit.ly/3UsLS41