Skip to main content
Gifts from The Morning Star
Most of Scotland backs more help for the poorest, new study shows
Homeless people sleeping rough

MORE than half of people in Scotland back more financial support and debt relief for the nation’s poorest, according to a new study.

A survey by market research agency nfpResearch commissioned by children’s charity Aberlour found that 56 per cent of respondents backed more action to combat the poverty that blights the lives of one in four young people in Scotland.

Less than fortnight before the Scottish government publishes its draft Budget, the survey also found 56 per cent supported boosting the Scottish child payment from £27 to £40 a week, and 83 per cent backed extending free school meals.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Anti-fascists in Glasgow, July 26, 2025
Anti-fascism / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025
People take part in a Stop Trump Scotland protest outside the US Consulate in Edinburgh, as US President Donald Trump begins his five-day private trip to the country at his Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, July 26, 2025
Authoritarianism / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025

Protesters take to Aberdeen's streets to protest against the US's far-right president's trip

A pro Palestinian flag can be seen in the crowd by the Pyramid stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, June 27, 2025
Scotland / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025
A general view of the University of Edinburgh Old College, Edinburgh, March 2019
Slavery / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025
Similar stories
An elderly woman counting loose change
Britain / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
A child playing
Britain / 20 October 2024
20 October 2024