1. Progreso y Políticas Clave en Escocia.
Escocia se destaca como la única nación del Reino Unido donde la pobreza infantil está disminuyendo, un logro atribuido directamente a políticas progresistas implementadas por el Gobierno escocés, siendo el Scottish Child Payment (SCP) la medida más citada por su impacto positivo y transformador.
- Im in politics to lift children out of poverty, and were making progress. Thanks to our policies like the scottish child payment, scotland is the only part of the uk with falling child poverty.
- Child poverty rates in scotland are falling. The only country in the uk where this is happening.
- Scotland has seen a 12 drop in child poverty since passing legally binding targets in 2017, where england and wales have seen a 15 rise.
- The scottish child payment introduced by the snp government is cited as a key reason that child poverty rates are falling in scotland, even as they climb in all other uk nations.
- The scottish child payment was described by prof. Danny dorling as the biggest thing to reduce child poverty in europe in last 40 years.
2. El Contraste con el Resto del Reino Unido y las Decisiones Políticas.
Mientras Escocia implementa medidas de mitigación, como la eliminación del límite de dos hijos en los beneficios, la pobreza infantil en Inglaterra y Gales sigue una trayectoria ascendente. El archivo subraya que la pobreza es una "elección política" y critica la falta de acción del gobierno de Westminster, que podría levantar a miles de niños de la pobreza si adoptara políticas similares a las escocesas.
- Poverty is a political choice! scotland has shown the way but there is still more to be done. All ruk have to do is follow suit, its their choice!
- Child poverty is highest in wales labour and least in scotland the snp.
- We will mitigate labours two-child benefit cap, lifting 15,00 children out of poverty this year.
- The uk government could lift 700,00 children out of poverty overnight by matching scotlands fiscal commitment to driving poverty down.
- Child poverty is predicted to go up in the rest of the uk whilst falling in scotland because of snp policies like the child payment scrapping the two-child cap.
3. Desafíos, Metas y la Lucha por la Erradicación.
A pesar del progreso, los niveles de pobreza en Escocia siguen siendo inaceptablemente altos, con casi uno de cada cuatro niños afectados. Organizaciones benéficas y expertos instan al Gobierno escocés a tomar medidas más audaces, como aumentar el Scottish Child Payment, para cumplir con los ambiciosos objetivos de reducción de pobreza para 2030. La independencia se presenta como la vía para obtener plenos poderes y desmantelar la pobreza estructural.
- With nearly 1 in 4 children experiencing poverty in scotland, there is no better place to start than building a better future for every child read our poverty in scotland report.
- The scottish government needs more policies or actions with as great an impact as the scottish child payment if they are to meet 2030 child poverty targets.
- Increasing the scottish child payment to 40 a week would be life-changing for families on the lowest incomes.
- Scotland wont end child poverty with tweaks and token gestureswe need to flip the script on our economy.
- Child poverty cant be ended without tackling homelessness we urgently need a housingemergency action plan to get scotlands 10,360 children stuck in harmful temporary accommodation into the secure, permanent homes they need in order to have the stability they need to thrive.
- Child poverty will never be completely eradicated in scotland until we secure independence from the uk.