Motion: Save the Children's Museum of Poverty

Save the Children's Museum of Poverty

Lodged by Mr Frank McAveety Standard Motion 31 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes Save the Children’s Museum of Poverty coming to the Parliament to highlight the impact of child poverty in Scotland and the steps that need to be taken to eradicate it once and for all; congratulates the young people and parents from Glasgow and Glasgow Shettleston who created the Museum of Poverty and who have themselves experienced poverty; welcomes them to the Parliament for a reception on Thursday 4 March 2010; recognises, during the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, the importance of such awareness-raising work in consigning poverty to history; notes with concern that 240,000 children still live in poverty in Scotland, 95,000 of whom live in severe poverty; and this means that children and parents are missing out on everyday essentials such as food and clothing and cannot afford things that most families take for granted, such as celebrating a birthday or having a short family holiday; believes that every child deserves a fair chance in life, all are born equal and none should be left behind and that it is not fair that any child grows up in poverty; acknowledges that child poverty remains a significant concern and further action is needed to tackle it, and calls on the Scottish Government, alongside other key stakeholders, to make child poverty history once and for all.

Supporters (31)