More than 2,000 Renfrewshire children were plunged into poverty just as the cost-of-living crisis tightened, new figures have revealed.
Statistics, published by the End Child Poverty Coalition, shows 7,840 youngsters in the local authority area were found to be living below the breadline in the 2021/22 financial year.
An increase of 2,081 on the previous year, it means just under one in four of our children, 23.4 per cent, are now living in homes with not enough cash to cover the basics.
