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This compares to 17 per cent the previous year.
After housing costs (AHC), 26 per cent of children in Scotland were living in relative poverty, approximately 260,000.
I understand the importance of flexibility. Prior to the 2025-26 budget, ring fencing had been removed, but the 2025-26 budget delivered a baseline of a further £524.9 million of funding.
We are in need of more foster carers. The latest Care Inspectorate report says: “There were fewer new households approved ... than in any of the four preceding years”, and that “402 foster care households ... deregistered.”
Consultation 26. As mentioned above, the Scottish Government has had extensive and constructive engagement with the Ministerial Advisory Group on Child Poverty, Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality and others on the proposed Bill.
This point was highlighted in an article in the Scottish Sun: Ministers under fire for not including ScotRail’s parent firm in bodies covered by anti-rip-off law: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish- news/8633273/scottish-government-scotrail-consumer-law/ Secondly, currently Scotrail has said that its aware that given historical fare anomalies its often cheaper to buy a split ticket across the Strathclyde boundary.