Press Release
13th August 2007

Child Poverty tops the Agenda
As part of his commitment to discuss the key issues which come under his Committee’s remit with the main players in the field, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Duncan McNeil, will welcome two leading children’s charities to Greenock this week to debate tackling child poverty.

The Convener of Holyrood’s Local Government and Communities Committee will be joined by senior representatives from Save the Children and the Child Poverty Action Group, Committee Clerks and a Parliament research specialist to discuss on which issues the Committee should focus in the coming parliamentary session.

Looking forward to the meeting, Mr McNeil said:

“Last month I said in my Tele column that I would spend some time over the summer examining the key issues and talking to those with particular insights into them.  I am therefore meeting a range of organisations’ representatives in the near future and I will be particularly interested to get Save the Children’s and the Child Poverty Action Group’s perspectives.

“They’ll obviously have plenty of ideas about what I should make the Committee’s priority, but I also have my own strong views and I’m looking forward to a lively, informed exchange.”

The meeting will take place in Mr McNeil’s constituency office at 20 Union Street, Greenock, on Thursday 16^th August at 10:15.  In addition to Mr McNeil, meeting attendees comprise:  

• Douglas Hamilton, Policy Manager, Save the Children
• Clare Telfer, Policy Officer, Save the Children
• John Dickie, Head of Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland
• Martin Verity, Clerk to the Local Government and Communities Committee
• Ian Cowan, Assistant Clerk to the Committee
• Simon Watkins, Senior Research Specialist, Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).

ENDS

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