manageable payments over time with no interest. but critics say users too easily end up in debt and tougher rules are needed. child payments in scotland will increase to £20 per week from april. nicola sturgeon made the announcement in her keynote address at the snp virtual conference. the first minister said more than 100,000 children under the age of six would benefit and said the move was the boldest and most ambitious anti poverty measure anywhere in the uk . and then there s the doubling, yes, the doubling of state funded early years education and childcare. every three and four year olds and two year olds from the most vulnerable backgrounds are now entitled to the same number of hours in earlier settings as older children get in school. this policy saves parents thousands of pounds a year, but much, much more importantly, it gives children the
More than £200k child poverty payments made in one month
A total of 5475 Scottish Child Payments have been made in South Lanarkshire since the scheme launched.
The new benefit is for low-income families (Image: Lanarkshire Live)
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A benefit to tackle child poverty in South Lanarkshire has paid out over £200,000 since February.
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