A fifth of children in West Lothian are living in poverty, new research has found - with warnings that number could rise as the full effects the cost of living crisis come on the back of two years of pandemic.
In some parts of the county more than half of all children are living in poverty, according to the findings of a survey carried out by West Lothian Council’s Anti-Poverty Service.
The depute leader of the council said successive years of economic crisis had battered families, adding: “children are not in poverty alone, their parents are."
