Poverty

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Labour cuts will hurt those with least - Lorna Slater

A statue has been unveiled as part of a campaign to highlight the issue of pensioner poverty this winter.

'Freezing and forgotten': Ice sculpture leads winter fuel cuts plea

Former council leader dies, aged 80

Empty Kitchens Full Hearts kitchen team preparing meals for deliveries across Edinburgh

Charity launches appeal to provide healthy meals to hundreds of people in 2025

Mining communities still need help 40 years after miners' strike

Eilidh (AKA Jamie) Priest, 26, wearing mask, and Catriona Roberts, 22, pictured outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Activists who smashed Stone of Destiny cabinet sentenced

Santander X UK Awards 2024 first prize winners Anushka Mahesh, Sarah Bailey, Aurusha Kharas and Tom Scrope

Entrepreneurs win award for tackling period poverty with £4 underwear

Trussell ambassadors Levi Roots and Mark Hoyle (LadBaby) meet with Trussell Chief Executive Emma Revie outside Parliament

Celebrities are calling for more government action on hunger in the UK

Amazon's Toy Train will be donating hundreds of toys to families in need across the UK in the lead-up to Christmas

Amazon reveals this year’s Top 10 Toys for Christmas

'Progress on housing crisis will be getting homelessness under 1,000'

The Ripple Project charity tackles poverty and inequality in Restalrig, Lochend and Craigentinny in Edinburgh

Here's what cuts to support of vulnerable will mean

Project to help prevent suicide wins three years' funding

Ruth Lue-Quee, education consultant from Staffordshire, who says period poverty is more widespread than people think

Secondary school teachers call for better and earlier period education

Food charity given extra £100k to help people facing poverty

Social Bite founder Josh Littlejohn with Scottish Secretary Ian Murray

'Tackling poverty is still key priority despite benefit cap staying'

Adults living in hygiene poverty are going without deodorant, toothpaste, or a hot shower to ensure their family can have a meal.

Adults giving up basic hygiene products to ensure family can eat

Adults living in hygiene poverty are going without deodorant, toothpaste, or a hot shower to ensure their family can have a meal.

Francesca Tuckey

Story of a divorced mum-of-two reveals dark times of hygiene poverty

A quarter of children in Scotland are living in poverty amid a 92% surge in demand for financial advice, leading charity Children 1st has said.

One in seven children living in poverty

The city council is already an accredited Living Wage employer - now it hopes to enlist others too

Poverty is still with us, but there is progress - Kirsty Kennedy

Many schoolgirls struggle to access period products

Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley announces UK tour - full details

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

A child carries a tray with food during lunch-break at St Mary’s RC Primary School, in Battersea, south London.

Number of children in food poverty nearly doubles to four million

A Palestinian girl stands amid the rubble of her destroyed home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, in May 2021 (Picture: Fatima Shbair/Getty Images)

We can all play a part in ending poverty, homelessness and conflict

Unions help workers get better pay and conditions (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Reality of Lothians poverty is truly shocking. It doesn't have to be this way

5 mental health benefits of owning a pet

Free School Meals For All bill reading delayed in Parliament

Labour MP Zarah Sultana has accused Tories of ‘blocking’ her Free School Meals For All bill after its second reading in Parliament was rescheduled on Friday (January 20).

Ethan Evans

A woman holds a shopping basket of groceries.

Cost of living: Groceries cost could soar by £1.7bn

The Rev Mike Goss speaks at the Assembly on fuel poverty and excess profits.

Church of Scotland General Assembly 2022: Kirk backs windfall tax on oil and gas...

As the cost of living increases, more peope are falling back on food banks

People who use food banks 'can't cook' - Your views online

Lorna Slater (Green)

Think global, act local, vote Green on May 5 - Lorna Slater

Labour MSP Martin Whitfield said the Scottish Child Payment should be raised to £40.

Girl walked to school with no soles on her shoes

Fairtrade cocoa farmer Bismark Kpabitey (photo: Fairtrade Africa)

Fairtrade Fortnight: how the chocolate you buy can make a real difference

Lorna Slater (Green)

It is vital that we support low paid workers - Lorna Slater

PIC LISA FERGUSON First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced her intention to appoint two new Ministers following the approval of the historic Bute House agreement. For the first time anywhere in the UK members of the Green Party will enter government and for the first time since devolution a formal cooperation agreement will be in place in Scotland. Patrick Harvie will be Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants’ Rights, working with the Housing Secretary and Net Zero Secretary. Mr Harvie’s responsibilities will include driving policy changes that shift Scotland away from reliance on high carbon modes of transport and heating and towards greener alternatives – essential as part of the push towards a net zero economy by 2045. Ensuring fairness during that transformation will also be key, and Mr Harvie will lead on delivering a new deal for tenants, and ensuring building standards are fit for purpose. Lorna Slater will take on the role of Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, working with the Finance and Economy Secretary and Net Zero Secretary. Ms Slater will drive a Green Industrial Strategy, helping people access training and opportunities as part of a net zero Scotland, and ensuring our economy is supported through a just transition to net zero. Supporting biodiversity and protecting our national parks and natural heritage will also form part of Ms Slater’s role, working closely with NatureScot and Zero Waste Scotland and supporting the development of a circular economy that minimises the impact on our natural environment. The First Minister said: “This historic cooperation agreement is founded in a shared drive to work together in the Scottish Government to build a greener, fairer, independent Scotland. “We have massive challenges to overcome: a global pandemic and its lasting effects, the climate emergency and the assault by the UK government

Credit cuts to poorest is cruel and reckless - Lorna Slater

uPVC windows are problematic in conservation areas

Readers' letters: We need to talk about building regulations

Nicola Sturgeon has failed to deliver a public energy company which would help protect families from rising bills (Picture: Andy Buchanan/pool/Getty Images)

SNP and Tories are plunging thousands into poverty – Ian Murray MP

The new child poverty payment should be doubled within a year say campaigners.

Readers' letters: Child poverty in Scotland is improving

Photograph by Ian Georgeson, 07921 567360 pOLICE INVESTIGATE AFTER A BABY GIRL AROUND 1 DAY OLD WAS FOUND ON A BENCH BEHIND kILNCroft High rise on Hailesland Park Pic: Chief Inspector Richard Thomas

Poverty and inequality are key to fighting crime - Supt Richard Thomas

Campaigners have long called for action to tackle poverty but it is needed now more than ever (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Constant pressure of poverty can grind the soul – Ewan Aitken

Jim McCormick is chair of the Edinburgh Poverty Commision

Poverty and climate are key  to budget plans - Sam Gardner and Jim McCormick

Campaigners demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament in support of the Period Products Bill. (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Sturgeon deserves praise for making sanitary products free – Hayley Matthews

One in five children in Edinburgh lives in poverty

Edinburgh commits to ending poverty by 2030

Child poverty In Scotland is not inevitable but the result of political choice

We must invest more to meet poverty targets - Alison Johnstone

One in five children in Edinburgh lives in poverty

How to end poverty in Edinburgh within ten years

A new tourism strategy for the next decade in Edinburgh will be published at the end of this month. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Big change is coming, but Edinburgh will still thrive – Adam McVey and Cammy Day

Everyone should subscribe to progress towards eradicating child poverty, says Brian Wilson (Picture: Michael Sohn/AP)

Brian Wilson: This is the key political dividing line (and it’s not Brexit or in...

Elizabeth Marshall says we need a higher tourist tax to help fix our roads. Picture: TSPL

Letters: A £2 tourist tax is derisory - make it £8 and help fix our roads

Despite the impression of Edinburgh as an affluent city, figures show almost a quarter of children are affected by money issues. Picture: Johnston Press

In depth: How Edinburgh plans to tackle '˜hidden' poverty divide

There are more people sleeping rough in our city than ever before. Picture: John Devlin

Ewan Aitken: No progress on solution to poverty

Portobello High School pupils give their thoughts on how Edinburgh should look in 2050. Picture: Greg Macvean

Public vision for 2050 Edinburgh set out in City Vision report

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