Cuts to UK social security will push children into poverty, undermining progress being made in Scotland.

Responding to today’s Spring Statement, John Dickie, Director of Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)  in Scotland, said

'Stealth cuts to UK social security bring neither stability nor security to struggling families. They will push children into poverty across the UK, undermining the progress on child poverty being made in Scotland.  Growth and better living standards are not achieved by taking money from families with the least.  The Westminster government must invest in social security support  - not cut it  - or risk being remembered as the Labour administration under whose watch child poverty continued to rise.'

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