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Families are facing a summer of poverty
Schoolchildren are avoiding extra-curricular activities as they lack basic equipment and are arriving at school hungry. KEITH STODDART explains how the People’s Assembly Scotland is ready to support Scottish councillors who are standing against this injustice

A TRIP abroad for many these days may not seem like a big deal, but for one group of young Scots schoolchildren it was totally unexpected. 

This was not a typical class outing — the four young primary pupils made the 1,800-mile round trip from their school to the grand halls of the United Nations human rights council.

The 10-year-olds were in Geneva to hear about the need to tackle poverty in Britain. 

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