'Glasgow’s deep-rooted and persistent levels of deprivation have been the city’s greatest challenge for many decades' | SusaninLangside ✍️
CHILD poverty is a scourge on society, an unacceptable injustice shouldered by too many of our most vulnerable citizens.
Glasgow’s deep-rooted and persistent levels of deprivation have been the city’s greatest challenge for many decades. More recently, years of Tory austerity, the cost-of-living crisis, rampant inflation, the impacts of Brexit and legacies of the Covid pandemic have compounded that. There are, of course, no quick fixes here, no silver bullets to turn generational deprivation around. And that is made all the more difficult by the limited finances and powers the Scottish Government has to work with, while simultaneously mitigating Westminster policies.
But as it stands right now, the way in which finances are distributed to local government takes too little account of where poverty and deprivation levels are most acute. But the time is absolutely right to grasp this nettle. The game-changing impact of policies like the Scottish Child Payment or the benefits of the Pupil Equity Fund are being undermined by the severity of the cost-of-living crisis, and Scotland’s progress in addressing the consequences of generational poverty is at risk of being lost.
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