Scotland's Outlook campaign stats

Sources

• 870 000 people in Scotland still live in poverty The Poverty Alliance Poverty and Income Inequality Scotland: 2011-12 Households below average income  

• A fifth of children in Scotland are living below the breadline Poverty in Scotland Summary Briefing

• Sixth of people living in Scotland unable to afford to heat their homes Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK Survey 2012: Headline results for Scotland

• Tax credits down £300m a year Making sense of research on welfare cuts in Scotland 

• Incapacity benefits down £500m a year Making sense of research on welfare cuts in Scotland

• Working-age benefits increasing well below the rate of inflation A minimum income standard for the UK in 2013 

• 1 in 5 children are officially living in poverty in 2014 Child Poverty Action Group

• 1 in 7 school children don’t have a winter coat Child poverty in 2012

• 1 in 3 children will miss out of basic school activities like going on a school trip Child Poverty Action Group

• 65,000 more Scottish children will be pushed into poverty by 2020 Hidden picture of Scots child poverty as figures forecast to 'significantly worsen' 

• Over a quarter of Scottish cancer patients can’t afford to adequately heat their homes in winter Macmillan Cancer Care

• 4 in 5 cancer patients are hit with an average cost of £420 a month as result of their illness Macmillan Cancer Care

• Over 500,000 people struggling with bad housing or homelessness are helped every year by Shelter Scotland Shelter Scotland

• 39,827 homeless applications were recorded in Scotland in 2013 Shelter Scotland

• 60 children become homeless each day in Scotland The facts: bad housing and homelessness for children in Scotland 2009 

• A boy born in a wealthy area of Scotland will live 14 years longer compared to a boy born in poverty. Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2013 

• Scotland’s richest households are 273 times wealthier than the poorest households. Oxfam Scotland