SNP conference on Monday.The new £100 million winter fund for low-income households will provide those in need with cash to help “pay their fuel bills and make sure children don’t go hungry”, Sturgeon will tell the online conference.Sturgeon is announcing the fund to bridge the winter gap between the introduction of the £10 a week Scottish Child Payment for poorer families and amid criticism from Labour that her government has failed over a decade to tackle poverty in Scotland.With 230,000 children in Scotland living in poverty, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Sturgeon will acknowledge that action needs to be taken now.
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