Key Briefings for Child Poverty
OPFS welcomes and fully support the Scottish and Westminster Governments' commitment to end child poverty by 2020 (and halve it by 2010), and calls on all political parties to give their full commitment to realising this aim through their economic and social policies. OPFS is a member of the campaigning group End Child Poverty (Scotland).
Child and Family Poverty: A Seminar for Practitioners
The Poverty Act 2010 and the implications for Scotland in the context of the UK Coalition government’s measures to reduce public spending.
Held on Thursday 27th January 2011 at the University of Strathclyde
Briefing for MSP's on Lone Parents and the Child Poverty Strategy in Scotland: September 2010
To assist in the process of preparing a strategy on child poverty in Scotland, we have issued a comprehensive briefing to MSP's on the impact of UK budget measures on lone parents over the next three years and the measures we feel should be included in the strategy to assist lone parent families in a variety of circumstances.
The Emergency Budget and Lone Parents
While we welcome measures taken to help low income households including lone parents, this week's emergency budget was disappointing and worrying for many families.
End Child Poverty Campaign submission March 2010
The End Child Poverty Campaign Group, which we are members of , has just submitted its ideas to the Scottish Government on the key areas where action is needed. This is to help with the preparation of a Scottish strategy on child poverty, required by the Child Poverty Act, just passed by the UK Parliament
Child Poverty Bill Briefing
This latest briefing from the End Child Poverty Coalition calls on MSP's to consider placing a statutory duty on local authorities to reduce child poverty, but also looks at other ways in which the impact of the Bill could be strengthened in Scotland. It also notes the lack of reference to reducing child poverty in single outcome agreements.
Keep the promise of halving child poverty by 2010 by investing in the Budget
Letter to Scottish MPs from the End Child Poverty coalition.
The Scottish Parliament's Local Government and Communities Committee Inquiry into Child Poverty in Scotland
OPFS evidence:
www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/lgc/inquiries/Childpoverty/OPFS...
Joint submission from End Child Poverty group of charities:
www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/lgc/inquiries/Childpoverty/Vari...
Lone Parent Families and Poverty in Scotland
To achieve a socially inclusive society, we must seek to overcome family poverty, which diminishes life chances and restricts aspirations with consequences that echo down the years in the lives of parents and their children.