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Briefings News UNISON Week

UNISON Week 295 – Inward investment, internal market & More

6 October 2020 Joy Graham

  UNISON Week 295 – Inward investment, internal market & more. Read full newsletter here.

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Responses

Proposed Right to Food (Scotland) Bill Sept 2020

15 September 2020 Susan Galloway

UNISON strongly supports this proposed legislation which would  incorporate the right to food into Scots law. As we said in

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Community News

Politicians urged to protect carers from a growing poverty crisis

6 May 2020 Trisha Hamilton

UNISON Scotland has today joined over 100, caring, anti-poverty, women’s rights organisations, unions and think tanks to issue an urgent

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Conference News STUC Women

Redoubling efforts to end child poverty

29 October 2019 Editor

The theme of the 92nd Women’s Conference was “Fighting to eradicate child poverty” and delegates pledged support for a range of

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Responses

Good Food Nation Legislation Consultation Response – April 19

13 May 2019 Fiona Montgomery

UNISON has long campaigned on the wide-ranging agenda summarised in the Scottish Food Coalition (SFC) call for a socially and

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Welfare

Universal Credit & Welfare Briefing

14 November 2018 Fiona Montgomery

Scott Donohoe, Chair of UNISON’s Scottish Housing Issues & Welfare Group, brought branch welfare officers up to date at their

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Health Responses Women

‘End period poverty’ member’s Bill consultation response

12 December 2017 Fiona Montgomery

UNISON Scotland has a large number of women members on low incomes. We are fully supportive of this important proposed

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Responses

Child Poverty Bill

21 March 2017 Kay Sillars

UNISON believes that tackling child poverty is an important and achievable aim. The Scottish government’s plan to restore the commitments

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Futures Public Works

Futures number 17 autumn/winter 2016

9 November 2016 Kay Sillars

 Latest edition of Futures covering the Scottish government’s plans for the upcoming year, the possibilities of a new Scottish approach to

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Responses

Child Poverty Bill

29 September 2016 Kay Sillars

There are currently 220,000 children living in poverty, and two-thirds of them are living in a household where someone works.[1]

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