Low-income families should be given help to cope with increased emotional and financial pressures over the school holidays, a Child Povert...

Child poverty in Scotland is now so severe that teachers are being sent advice on how to spot if a child in their class is going hungry, a...

The Child Poverty Action Group calculates that 220,000 children live in poverty in Scotland. That’s one in five children, but we know that...

Economic health disparities are a reality. I n two separate studies, researchers found that experiencing poverty in early childhood is lin...

An estimated 36,367 children in the Glasgow City Council area are living below the poverty line, according to the research. Statistics fr...

Scotland had the worst record of the 32 nations taking part in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) internatio...

Some children may be going hungry over the school holidays because their parents cannot afford to feed them properly, the Church of Scotl...

In 2011/12, there were 710,000 (14%) Scots in poor households of which 420,000 working age adults, 140,000 pensioners and 150,000 children ...

One in five children is living in poverty in parts of almost every local council area in Scotland. Nearly all of Scotland’s local authoriti...

After the Celtic Tiger crash more than 18 per cent of children in the Irish Republic were at risk of, and almost 9 per cent were actually i...

Shining shoes, mining and herding animals among the many jobs done by an estimated 750,000 children between five and 17 in Bolivia. Rodrigo...

Children who live in poverty in Scotland are already failing before school starts, a new study from Save the Children report suggested. Yo...

Growing numbers of children are turning up at school malnourished, dirty and struggling to concentrate because of soaring poverty level...

Divorce and desertion are pushing Scottish women into poverty and debt spirals much faster than their male counterparts according to resea...

15 year-old children at the bottom of the class are so far behind they are performing “as if they were 10 years old”, a report handed to MS...

Children in one in five Scottish families live in poverty, campaigners have warned , with fears that number is set to rise. The highest lev...

Every day in Scotland 60 children become homeless – that is nearly 22,000 a year. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/-1.1132982

Poverty trap for children as fifth of Scottish families jobless. The number of under-16s living in households without adults in employment r...

The cost of raising a child in Scotland until their 21st birthday has risen to £203,000 – or £26.50 a day – a report has revealed . The st...

Save the Children said its research revealed there are 90,000 children in Scotland - or one in 10 - living in what they term the most "...