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media captionLabour say Holyrood needs to obsess about the recovery for jobs, the NHS, education, communities and the climate
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Scotland deserves better than the old politics of division as he unveiled his party s election manifesto.
He said his party s national recovery plan would build a fairer and stronger Scotland after the Covid pandemic.
Mr Sarwar said the next parliament had to focus on what unites us, not what divides us .
And he said the country s political debate had to move on from re-running old arguments about independence.
Labour s national recovery plan is divided into five parts, each of which Mr Sarwar said, was tailored to help Scotland recover from the Covid crisis.
Sarwar touts minimum income guarantee in social security shake-up SCOTTISH Labour has said it would “repair and renew” the welfare safety net if it was in power at Holyrood, with a guaranteed minimum income for all. Party leader Anas Sarwar said he also wanted to reverse the “cruellest” aspects of Tory benefit reform, including the two-child limit on certain funds. Publishing a social security recovery plan while election campaigning in Glasgow, Mr Sarwar said he wanted to address child poverty with a “minimum income guarantee”, with benefits topping up low wages to ensure everyone had an acceptable living standard. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation calculated that in 2020, a single person would have to earn £19,200 a year to hit that level, and a couple with two children £18,700 each.
A RESEARCHER behind a cost of living study has moved to clarify the rationale and methodology behind it after a call for participants on Wednesday received a raft of critical comments.
People living in Lerwick and within a 10 miles radius of the town have been invited to take part in research to help create a better understanding of the needs and costs experienced by those who âlive in rural and remote areas of Scotlandâ.
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Comments ranged from describing Lerwick as an urban rather than a rural area to pointing out that the cost of living on the islands are significantly higher than in Shetlandâs own central belt.
PEOPLE in and around Lerwick are being invited to take part in research on the needs and costs experienced by folk living in rural areas of Scotland.
The project, which is commissioned by the Scottish Government, is now recruiting people from a variety of backgrounds and ages in Lerwick and within a 10-mile radius of the town.
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It will involve taking part in an online focus group held on Zoom.
All participants will receive a £50 voucher for Tesco, Co-op or Amazon in return for their time.
Participants do not need to be an âexpertâ in anything and will not be discussing personal details. Involvement in the project is voluntary and discussions during the focus groups are strictly confidential.