Poverty

Drugs minister Maree Todd may regret claiming that 'we are making progress' as new figures showed an increase in Scotland's drug-deaths (Picture: Andrew Milligan)

Party politics has no place in tackling shameful drug-deaths crisis Scotsman comment

Reform to Scotland's social care system will be irrelevant unless carers' pay is improved, it has been claimed.

Exclusive SNP ministers 'must tackle Dickensian low pay' in social care sector

The Scottish Human Rights Commission said the rising costs of living meant the effects of poverty on people’s lives were being seen 'ever more starkly'. Picture: PA

Ministers 'failing' to uphold human rights over poverty, watchdog says

Trussell's food banks across Scotland provided 20,000 emergency food parcels in 2025 to those aged between 17 and 24. Picture: PA

Young Scots cutting back on food due to financial squeeze

Michael Marra MSP

'Labour will rediscover its soul' under my leadership, says Marra

Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander (Yui Mok/PA)

Exclusive MPs to meet Scots Secretary to discuss 'Highland premium'

Exclusive Council launches probe into chestfeeding group 'safeguarding concerns'

Young people across Scotland received their exam results on Tuesday

'Postcode lottery' on exam results as gap holds between rich and poor

Scottish Education Secretary Mairi McAllan with students at Broughton High School in Edinburgh

Analysis Results relief for McAllan - but her real test is still to come

Monica Lennon announced last week she would run for the Scottish Labour leadership (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Exclusive Monica Lennon confirmed as MSP and 'has numbers for leadership race'

Engender is urging the Scottish government to tackle gendered poverty inequality (Jane Barlow/PA)

Exclusive Scots women suffer 'income crisis of misogynistic political choices'

Shona Robison will be replaced as finance secretary at some point this week.

Analysis Whoever becomes the next finance secretary faces unenviable challenge

Bob Geldof spoke with poetic eloquence about the power of politics to make a difference (Picture: Adam Berry)

Geldof, Macari and Social Bite show how Scotland could do so much more Brian Wilson

Sor the paladin, Celaena the druid and Azara the wizard - also known as Scottish Green co-leader Ross Greer, Political Correspondent Rachel Amery, and co-leader Gillian Mackay.

Scottish Greens co-leaders on extremism, wealth and Dungeons & Dragons

Child poverty continues to blight communities in Scotland

No limits to childhood? This election risks falling short on poverty Fiona King

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during a visit to Hamilton International Technology Park in South Lanarkshire last month

Labour would raise LBTT threshold to £200k for first time buyers

Many GPs are seeing rising numbers of patients with conditions related to poverty (Picture: Charles Milligan/Hulton Archive)

GPs' warning about diseases of poverty should shame the SNP Scotsman comment

Ferguslie Park, Paisley

Exclusive GPs urge next Scottish government to take drastic action on poverty

Pictures like this from the Mekele refugee camp in Tigre, Ethiopia, in 1985 moved many people to send money to help

If you'd seen what I'd seen, you would not cut overseas aid Dennis Canavan

A mother who flees domestic abuse can find herself pursued by public bodies for her ex-partner's debts (Picture: PYMCA/Avalon)

How government pursues debts with less compassion than private sector Justina Murray

Broken systems mean people are being corralled down long-term paths of debt and destitution (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Poverty is political choice that next Scottish Government must change Emma Jackson

People working in the hospitality sector can be paid less than the Real Living Wage (Picture: Jack Taylor)

Next government must make different choices to tackle in-work poverty Jack Evans

Sir Keir Starmer says he backs Anas Sarwar '100 per cent'

Ash Regan

'Women treated worse than dogs' claims Regan after bill voted down

Ash Regan MSP

Breaking Proposals to overhaul prostitution law fall at the first hurdle

Why is healthy life expectancy in this part of Scotland so low?

Nuria fled her rural village in Somalia with her family after drought destroyed her livelihood.

Just 1 in 10 Brits aware of world's most neglected displacement crises

L-R: Michael Traill; Hannah Robertson-Newton; Rosalind Erskine and Thomas Elsner outside the Southside Community Centre in Edinburgh

Good Christmas food, silent discos and films for Edinburgh's homeless

The bill in Holyrood aims to overhaul prostitution law in Scotland.

Prostitution Scotland: Hundreds sign letter calling for law change

Shona Robison

Why Shona Robison's job has been 'made slightly easier' by Reeves

From L-R: Will Russell Chef, Igor Faggion Front of House, Paula Rodgers Front of House and Yvonne Naylor Cafe Manager.

Highland charity launches café to help lift people out of poverty

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Anas Sarwar demands 'package to bring down energy bills' in UK Budget

Aberlour has seen a 17 per cent year on year increase in emergency payments to poor families.

Exclusive Surge in emergency payments as charity calls for scrap of benefit cap

Career breaks push women into pension poverty

Lea Manor school in Luton will have uniforms donated by easyJet.

easyJet is turning thousands of old crew outfits into school uniforms

Protesters called for an end to the detention of asylum seekers in hotels after six people were injured in a knife attack at Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow in June 2020.

Asylum seekers not the cause of housing crisis - SNP minister

Roz Foyer, general secretary of the STUC

Union boss defends calling for wealth tax while owning five properties

The Make Poverty History march on July 2 2005 in Edinburgh

We should always be trying to make poverty history Scotsman comment

Child poverty target on course to be missed by 'large margin'

The Scottish Greens want the time limit for council tax arrears in Scotland to be brought in line with England. Pic: National World

MSPs set to vote on cutting 'unpayable' council tax debt in Scotland

Protesters wave flags during the Unite The Kingdom rally, organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson, in London earlier this month (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Mass Edinburgh rally will be antidote to far-right protest in London Chris Birt and Peter Kelly

Dhal and aubergine curry from the Glasgow pop-up public diner meal

I tried a public diner - why these civic restaurants should return

Shona Robison and Ian Murray

Analysis Spending Review sees UK Government gamble on trust, not just spending

Sir Keir Starmer was urged to abolish the two-child benefit cap

Labour urged to reverse other benefit changes after winter fuel U-turn

As poverty has deepened for many people, foodbanks have become commonplace across the UK (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Why SNP and Labour need to take poverty much more seriously Satwat Rehman and Chris Birt

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah at a remembrance service at the Cenotaph memorial in central London in 2018

'Greatest loss': Sarah Brown on heart-breaking death of baby daughter

Chancellor Rachel Reeves insists the welfare cuts will not drive people into poverty

Starmer refuses to rule out Autumn tax hike amid think tank warning

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