This is the list of documents available for the submission Motion by Councillor Susan Aitken:- "Council welcomes the renewed commitment of Scotland's new First Minister to eradicate child poverty and commits to continuing to prioritise work to achieve the same outcome in Glasgow, noting that all partners in the Glasgow Community Planning Partnership have agreed to unite activity around the single shared priority of "Family Poverty: Reducing Poverty and Inequalities in Glasgow's Communities". Council acknowledges however that the eradication of child poverty is not a commitment that can be achieved by the Scottish Government or by Glasgow City Council alone, and notes that the choices of governments of all levels are material to our child poverty outcomes. Council notes that during a cost of living and inflation crisis, children and families are often the most vulnerable: a fact that makes Glasgow - a city with a younger and poorer population than the national average - especially at risk from the issues that arise from the experience of child poverty. Council regrets the historical legacy, and political and economic choices that have resulted in 45.4% of Glasgow's neighbourhoods being in the most deprived quintile of Scottish localities, with 51% of our children living in these areas. Council further notes that these local poverty rates impact on the budgets of Glasgow City Council, passing the cost on to taxpayers in the city. Council is encouraged by Glasgow's comparatively strong performance on child poverty reduction in comparison to cities like Manchester, Birmingham or London, and attributes this progress to Scottish Government interventions such as the Scottish Child Payment and Whole Family Wellbeing Fund, as well as child poverty alleviation mechanisms funded and delivered by Glasgow City Council and our partners, such as: the Holiday Programme; Child Poverty Pathfinder; Glasgow Helps; Healthier, Wealthier Children; and Supporting Families Projects. Council is deeply concerned however that, despite the significant investments made by the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council, it remains the case that around one third of children in wards such as Calton and Southside Central are living in poverty. Council believes that this is a consequence of exclusionary social and fiscal policies pursued by UK governments and notes, for example, the 'very strong' correlation between the percentage of families affected by the two-child cap and local child poverty rates across these islands, as per research from Loughborough University's Centre for Research in Social Policy. Council believes that it is entirely unnecessary for child poverty to exist in a modern advanced industrial economy such as the UK and that, regardless of who is in power, the UK government has the power to eradicate child poverty within a parliamentary term by prioritising the policy and spending choices that will achieve this outcome. Council therefore asks the Council Leader to write to the new Prime Minister, setting out the child poverty challenges that remain in Glasgow; seeking the immediate removal of the two-child cap as well as policies currently mitigated by the Scottish Government such as the benefit cap and bedroom tax; inviting them to examine and replicate the success of the Scottish Child Payment as a model for funding child poverty alleviation; and seeking their acknowledgement that adequate funding for local services for families experiencing poverty such as those delivered in Glasgow as just as vital for delivering transformation as Scottish and UK-wide interventions.".

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