Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown warns that a poverty epidemic in Scotland is leading to parents considering putting their children in care. One in ten families using a supported charity in Fife believe they may have to hand over their children to social services. Brown highlights the urgent need for attention to this national emergency.
Thousands of parents face putting their children in care because of a poverty epidemic sweeping Scotland , Gordon Brown has warned. The Former Prime Minister has revealed a staggering one in ten families using a charity he supports in Fife believe they could have to hand sons and daughters to social services . He has told of one recent case where a father left his distraught 16-year-old boy at a charity depot because he couldn’t afford to feed and clothe the teenager.
Brown, who launches a campaign highlighting the “national emergency” this week, said: “Political attention is on the timing of the general election, but millions of families face a more immediate challenge - simply surviving to the end of the week. “From north to south a hidden poverty epidemic is spreading across the country. It is fast becoming a national emergency. “This is the pandemic that no Minister ever mentions, a silent crisis striking thousands of children in bedless bedrooms, millions of parents in foodless kitchens, and dozens of communities in increasingly hopeless destitutio
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