One Parent Families Scotland report on the impacts of Covid 19
This report from One Parent Families Scotland highlights the difficulties some families are facing during this pandemic.
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Connect, a membership charity for parent groups in Scotland has conducted a survey of parents and carers views during the Covid 19 crisis.
Today we’ve joined more than 100 organisations in asking the the First Minister to give families on low incomes an urgent cash boost to keep them afloat.
Many families in Scotland are struggling because of austerity. Finances, housing and health are all under pressure. The UNCRC states that the family is the most appropriate place for children and that parents hold rights on behalf of their children, and that the state has a duty to support parents in delivering these rights. Home-Start Scotland and Parenting across Scotland have come together to explore how the incorporation of the UNCRC into Scots law can support families to exercise these rights on behalf of their children.
The seminar heard from: