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20 June 2024

On #BBCQT John Swinney said measures the SNP took on child poverty are keeping “100,000 children out of poverty in Scotland today”.

Modelling estimates this many children will be kept out of relative poverty in 2024/25 by Scottish government policies generally. #GE24

Of this number, 60,000 are expected to be kept out of poverty specifically because of the Scottish Child Payment. We wrote more about this here ⬇️ #GE24
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