UK, Scottish Governments Lack Action
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interim child poverty reduction targetsBBC UK
•Minister failing to act to reduce poverty - report
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More than one million people in Scotland in poverty, including 240,000 children.
The proportion living in "very deep poverty" has surged to 40% of all families in Scotland .
JRF said families were being "locked into poverty" by a "failing" social security system.
UK government said it had set up a taskforce to tackle child poverty with reforms on the way.
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