On 5 December, the government published the long-awaited, UK-wide cross-government child poverty strategy. The strategy contains a number of new policies to tackle child poverty, as well as previously-announced policies introduced since the government’s election last year. Taken collectively, the key policies in the strategy will deliver transformative change for some of the country’s poorest children and their families.
School Shouldn’t Cost, The Young People’s Poverty and Education Manifesto 2026 published today, 9 December, sets out what thousands of young people across Scotland say should happen to further reduce the impact of poverty in their schools.
Published today, School Shouldn't Cost: Young People's Poverty and Education Manifesto 2025-31 sets out what thousands of young people across Scotland say should happen to reduce the impact of poverty in their schools.
