Child poverty rises across Scotland as campaigners demand Universal Credit payment boost
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dailyrecord.co.ukchild poverty in Scotland has been exposed in scandalous new figures showing a rise almost everywhere in the past five years.
Only one council area managed to improve - by just less than one percent - while the rest of the country saw young people fall further behind.
Nearly one in three children in Glasgow were classed as "living in poverty" after housing costs in the most recent study, the highest proportion in Scotland.
Campaigners demanded the UK Government commits to keeping the £20 emergency increase in Universal Credit benefits, introduced at the start of the coronavirus crisis.
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