More than one in four children are living in poverty in Dumfries and Galloway amid the worst cost of living crisis in memory.
Shocking figures in a new report revealed that 6,751 kids in the region - 26 per cent - are deemed to be caught in the poverty trap.
The report, produced on behalf of the End Child Poverty coalition, showed that Dumfries and Galloway had the eighth highest level among Scotland’s 32 local authority areas in 2021/22.
