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New research into the cost of the school holidays

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CPAG report says low income families struggle with food, childcare and heating costs during the school holidays.

Black History Month 2025: CRER's manifesto for an anti-racist Scotland

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Challenge Poverty Week 2015

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This year Challenge Poverty Week runs from 17th to 23rd October.

Cost of the School Day update

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Latest newsletter from the Cost of the School Day project is now available.

The Cost of the School Day project

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The Cost of the School Day (COSD) project was set up in Glasgow in 2014 to identify cost barriers that prevent some children from fully taking part in school and what could be done to address them.

Poverty Leadership Panel staff attitudes survey report

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This report presents the findings of a baseline survey carried out to understand the views and perceptions of staff across the city, who work with people struggling against poverty.

“It takes all of us”: a whole-school approach to reduce the cost of the school day

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Marion Fairweather discusses the value of working together with stakeholders and using a whole-school approach to reducing the cost of the school day.

Reflections on poverty

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It's Challenge Poverty Week and in this blog James Egan reflects on areas of poverty work and research involving the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH), looking at what lessons can be learned from listening more to those living in poverty.

The cost of the school holidays

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A Child Poverty Action Group (Scotland) publication on research into the needs of low income families during school holidays.

BP 49: Learning from the Cost of the School Day project

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This briefing paper builds on findings from the Cost of the School Day project and explores wider evidence to consider what actions could reduce costs throughout the school day for families on low income.