INDEPENDENCE and control over Scotland's resources offer the best hope for eradicating child poverty, and enshrining the rights of young people in a written constitution would help the process, the Deputy First Minister said.
INDEPENDENCE and control over Scotland's resources offer the best hope for eradicating child poverty, and enshrining the rights of young people in a written constitution would help the process, the Deputy First Minister said.
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ROBBIE DINWOODIE
Nicola Sturgeon, addressing the End Child Poverty Coalition at the National Museum of Scotland, said the opportunity to address the current growth in the problem was one of the "big prizes" of independence.
She highlighted the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, saying this could be incorporated into a future written constitution to force policymakers of the future to put the rights of young people at the heart of decision-making.
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