A motion was passed which calls on the new UK Prime Minister to scrap the two-child benefit cap.
Council leader Susan Aitken has demanded “an end to austerity” as Glasgow councillors agreed to call on the new UK Prime Minister to act on “grim” child poverty levels in the city.
A Labour amendment, which highlighted the impact of Scottish Government cuts to its affordable housing budget and council cuts to teaching posts, wasn’t passed. She said the statistics are “as stark as they are grim”, with between “a quarter and a third of children in our city are living below the poverty threshold” and 45% of “our city’s neighbourhoods, which are home to over half of our children, are in the most deprived in Scotland”.
Labour sought to replace the motion with an amendment that called on the Scottish Government to reverse cuts to the affordable housing budget, which will see Glasgow receive £78m rather than £104m, and to colleges and local government.
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