Browsing Tag
child poverty
10 posts
Fact check: Scottish Labour manifesto
Ferret Fact Service looks at five claims from the Scottish Labour manifesto.
For Fact’s Sake podcast: How are online scammers using artificial intelligence?
This week's episode looks at the advancing technology behind online scams.
Claim one in four Scots children is in poverty is True
Ferret Fact Service looks at a claim by Anas Sarwar about child poverty in Scotland.
Fact check: Nicola Sturgeon on her record as first minister
Ferret Fact Service looks at five claims Nicola Sturgeon made about her record as first minister.
Disadvantaged children should be priority in Covid recovery, says report
Anti-poverty groups have called on the Scottish Government to urgently introduce measures to end child poverty after new report.
Fact check: Scottish party leaders in the Channel 4 debate
The leaders of the five largest parties in the Scottish Parliament tussled over issues which have dominated the campaigning ahead of May's election.
‘Families are drowning’: urgent calls made for child maintenance payments to be enforced
The UK government must step in to prevent single parent families “drowning in poverty” because their child maintenance payments have stopped in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been claimed.
‘There is no safety net’: Fife’s child poverty epidemic
The Ferret and HuffPost investigate the impact of UK government austerity on child poverty in Fife.
Claim that 30 per cent of children in the UK are born into poverty is True
Ferret Fact Service looks at Scottish Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie's claim on child poverty levels in the UK.
