Category - budget

The Church of Scotland is joining academics and anti-Poverty campaigners in a call for the Scottish Government's budget to include a new income supplement to tackle child poverty.

Almost a third of GPs said they are unlikely to be working in general practice in five years time.

Fifteen food poverty charities and church leaders have backed the call for a £2 billion Budget investment to help fix Universal Credit.

Analysis from the New Economics Foundation reveals that services without spending protections could face further austerity after a decade of cuts.