Child Poverty Action Group

Read our latest e-bulletin which looks at: Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook - online update; updated factsheets; benefit cap; personal independence payment; estrangement and young further education students; and part-time fee grant.

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Read our latest e-bulletin which looks at: training; factsheets; Public Accounts Committee report; debt collection agencies; latest statistics; and caselaw: appeal rights.

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Read our latest e-bulletin which looks at: draft Croatian worker regulations; more migrants may be needed; pregnant EEA nationals; updated refugee factsheet; research into migrant integration in Glasgow; permanent right to reside for primary carers and child in education.

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Read our latest e-bulletin which looks at: new DLA caselaw; housing benefit for disabled children unable to share a room; PIP introduced; and Scottish Welfare Fund introduced.

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CPAG in Scotland today responded to the publication of new projections of a massive rise in child poverty in Scotland and across the UK, prepared as part of wider UK forecasts by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

The forecast predicts nearly 30% of Scotland’s children will be living in poverty by 2020, up from the latest official figure of 21%.

Read our latest e-bulletin which includes: welfare reform and residence rules; Romanians, Bulgarians and Croatians; new AIRE Centre project and interim payments for carers of EU children.

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Read our latest e-bulletin which looks at: new announcement on childcare, HMRC service ‘woefully inadequate’, help with heating, self-employed, tax credits and the move to universal credit, and more.

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Read our latest ebulletin which looks at: new universal credit and students factsheet, the 'bedroom tax', the Scottish Welfare Fund, online Handbook update, Council Tax Reduction scheme and the benefit cap.

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Our fringe meeting with the Open University was featured on the Scottish National Party's Spring Conference highlights on BBC2. Watch it here (about 18.30 in). 

Read our March news round-up which includes: mapping child poverty, annual conference, the 'bedroom tax', Child poverty measurement: how NOT to do it?, Scottish Welfare Fund, and more.

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