Martin Canavan 🧡
Daddy. Husband. Travels. Books. History geek. Head of Policy & Influencing @aberlourcharity.bsky.social Trustee @together-sacr.bsky.social Fighting to end child poverty.
Glasgow, Scotland.
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- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡Today, the Bill to end the two-child limit begins making its way through Parliament. The policy drove child poverty to a record high, hurting young people. We commend the government's choice to scrap the two-child limit and join 65 other organisations in asking all MPs to support this Bill.
- The current value of Universal Credit fails to provide those who rely on it with enough to cover even just the day-to-day basics. We need to see reform of social security that includes an #EssentialsGuarantee so that people’s income is at least adequate enough to cover life’s essentials.
- MPs will soon debate the annual benefits ‘Uprating Order' on how much benefits rise this year. But shockingly, support has never been set according to any logical calculation, like ensuring Universal Credit covers life's essentials - which @jrf-uk.bsky.social estimates cost £120 a week🧵1/4
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- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡Parents tell us the Scottish Child Payment makes a real difference to their lives - it helps them afford basic essentials like food, energy bills, nappies, and children’s clothes. And we see this impact reflected in the latest figures on child poverty in Scotland too (🧵1/4)
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- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡Poverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
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- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡🚨 New analysis alert! Our most recent polling revealed that nearly half of people in Scotland were feeling economically insecure. They are concerned about being able to afford the cost of everyday essentials - like food and energy. This has political consequences 🔽
- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡...a jam-packed afternoon! We've hosted our two sets of lightning talks and response panels 🎙️⚡ We've heard from leading voices across the research and policy communities advocating for what they think Scotland should stop and start doing in public services. #StopStart @glasgow.ac.uk
- Great to be at @uofgpolicy.bsky.social #StopStart conference on public sector reform. Hearing @jimmccormick.bsky.social open the day with a sense of hope for what can be achieved urging us to move towards the “bright spots” of what is working already to help reduce child poverty and support families
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- In today’s #ScottishBudget we must see investment and concrete commitments accelerating efforts to reduce child poverty and meet child poverty targets. This includes increasing 🏴 Child Payment, creating sustainable routes out of poverty through fair work and tackling the public debt crisis.
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- Stepping into 2026 full of hope.
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- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.
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- The Mogwailers
- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡26 years ago our CEO @sabirzazai.bsky.social arrived in the UK. Here he tells the Daily Record about his challenging but inspiring journey uk.news.yahoo.com/dad-smuggled...
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- Wilfried Nancy, the French Caixinha.
- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡🍎 No child should ever go hungry at school. Free School Meals are one of the simplest and most effective tools we have to reduce child poverty and level the playing field for every child in Edinburgh and beyond.
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- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
- Hard agree. Entirely self inflicted due to arrogance, incompetence and complacency. The Board gambled on Nancy hoping for another Ange, but turning out more like Celtic’s answer to Caixinha.
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- Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
- Reposted by Martin Canavan 🧡'us v them' framing in all its guises is utterly poisonous to social democracy and therefore should be avoided like the plague by anyone interested in progressing anything that vaguely looks like social democracy
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