SallyAnn Kelly of Aberlour said the focus and resources that were marshalled during the pandemic are also needed to slash poverty.
A leading campaigner has demanded the child poverty crisis is given the same emergency response as covid. Aberlour chief executive SallyAnn Kelly said the billions spent during the pandemic should also be shelled out for low income families.
Kelly said the difference in response is because politicians were directly affected by covid but not by poverty. Aberlour believes both governments have a key role to play in making big reductions in child poverty. She wants First Minister John Swinney to use his Budget to increase the £26.70 a week SCP and is urging Keir Starmer to end the two child cap on benefits.
She spoke approvingly of the SCP and UK Government plans to improve workers’ pay and conditions, but said: “We welcome all of that but it takes time and children do not have that time. They are suffering right now and they need action right now. There must be emergency relief for families, even if only on a temporary basis, until these promised changes take effect. That kind of temporary, emergency support is exactly what happened during Covid and is exactly what is needed now.
Scottish politics Green MSP Maggie Chapman said: “During the height of Covid-19, the government ended homelessness overnight. It should not take a global pandemic to support the most marginalised groups of people in our society. We need that same determination and action every day.”
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