As part of its current 'Silver Spoon' campaign against child poverty (pictured above), Bar- nardo's has voiced concern that more than a quarter of families' childcare needs were going unmet. It said many parents were prevented from working by disability or the cost of childcare.
Around 320,000 children across Scotland currently survive in families living on less than the poverty line of 242 a week, Barnardo's said.
Children born into poverty were more likely to suffer ill health, leave school without qualifications, be unemployed, become homeless and have teenage pregnancies.
Tam Baillie, assistant director of policy at Barnardo's Scotland, said, 'The most recent statistics show that 30 per cent of Scottish children are living in poverty. A number of issues, such as insufficient benefit levels and unmet childcare needs, continue to have a significant impact on poor families.
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