Her motion to a full council meeting this week demands the two-child benefit cap is scrapped and urges the government to use its 'significant powers'.
Council leader Susan Aitken will ask Glasgow councillors to back her call for the UK’s new Prime Minister to act on “unacceptable” child poverty in the city.
READ MORE: Fire crews continue to battle Linwood industrial blaze as locals warned amid smoke fears Labour’s Keir Starmer hasn’t committed to removing the cap, which was introduced by the Conservatives. It states the “eradication of child poverty is not a commitment that can be achieved by the Scottish Government or by Glasgow City Council alone”.
“Whoever is the next UK Government, they have a moral obligation to make the right choice and use the significant powers at their disposal to address this scourge, particularly as the direct connection between policies like the two-child cap and poverty rates is clear. Cllr Aitken will ask councillors to agree child poverty rates in the city are a “consequence of exclusionary social and fiscal policies pursued by UK governments” and that it is “entirely unnecessary for child poverty to exist in a modern advanced industrial economy such as the UK”.
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