A project hailed as a “shining example” of urban regeneration is to receive £3.5 million of Scottish Government cash, the ...

Mr Swinney added: “The Child Poverty Action Group has also estimated that low-income families in Scotland will be around £28,000 better off by the time their child turns 18, compared to ...

A project hailed as a “shining example” of urban regeneration is to receive £3.5 million of Scottish Government cash, the ...

Eradicating child poverty has been the “moral compass” of John Swinney’s government this past year. And in his Programme for Government (PfG) last week, he maintained that it remained the ...

NEW jobs will be created and derelict sites regenerated in Glasgow with the help of funding announced by First Minister John ...

Swinney pledges ‘significant reform’ of public services to fight child poverty The First Minister laid out his plans for the next 12 months in his first Programme for Government.

The Scottish Government can still achieve its legally-binding target to reduce child poverty to 10 per cent by 2030, John Swinney has insisted after charities warned it is set to be missed.

For John Swinney, there was extra pressure. In taking up the office of First Minister almost a year ago, he made his central mission the eradication of child poverty.

John Swinney refused to rule out seeing his leadership as a failure if his government failed to reduce child poverty rates in Scotland. The eradication of child poverty has been described as the ...

John Swinney made eradicating child poverty his key target when he first took over the job last month. In the second full week of the General Election campaign, ...

John Swinney made the pledge to eradicate child poverty as his government's mission Credit: PA. But the anti-poverty charity Joseph Rowntree Foundation said that Scotland would be further ahead in ...

In the statement at Holyrood, John Swinney is expected to commit the Scottish Government to eradicate child poverty and to work with business and industry to grow the economy, invest in net zero ...