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That is the income that is left after allowance has been made for certain essential living expenses. In determining that, all sources of income are considered when carrying out the calculation.
We asked people what their situation was. If they were living with someone but were not married to them, we asked how long they had been living together.
As parents, we do not want our children to spend their whole lives in one place; we want them to develop.Some of our clients will never live on their own without a great deal of support.
In Scotland, 30 per cent of our children—more than 320,000 children—live in poverty. That is a sad indictment of successive Conservative and Labour Governments.Child poverty is the denial of a child's basic right to an adequate standard of living.
I am a great believer in the idea that today's young people are cynical consumers. In every other aspect of their lives, they are cynical and they are tuned in.