Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland: Ebony and her friend Ethan, holding some of her rats and rabbits. Ebony lives, in a small flat, with a total of 38 rodents and small animals all told. Ebony volunteers on occasion during weekends at the nearby Linton Lane Community centre, serving drinks and food to the ever increasing numbers of local people who rely on the centre for their needs.

Kirkcaldy is one of the poorest areas in Scotland with staggeringly high numbers of child poverty. Many disadvantaged families, and vulnerable people, and over a thousand children are surviving below the breadline in Kirkaldy East, that is 40%. Voluntary organisations and foodbanks give over a thousand food parcels a month, several times more than a few years ago. The Conservative government’s policy of austerity together with the new ‘Universal Credit’ system which replaced six other benefits, makes millions of people poorer, many hundreds of thousands on the poverty line or below. Whilst people overall voted strongly against Brexit in Scotland, in other parts of the country, poorer constituencies voted largely for Brexit, in a vote against the City of London.

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Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland: Ebony and her friend Ethan, holding some of her rats and rabbits. Ebony lives, in a small flat, with a total of 38 rodents and small animals all told. Ebony volunteers on occasion during weekends at the nearby Linton Lane Community centre, serving drinks and food to the ever increasing numbers of local people who rely on the centre for their needs.<br />
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Kirkcaldy is one of the poorest areas in Scotland with staggeringly high numbers of child poverty. Many disadvantaged families, and vulnerable people, and over a thousand children are surviving below the breadline in Kirkaldy East, that is 40%. Voluntary organisations and foodbanks give over a thousand food parcels a month, several times more than a few years ago. The Conservative government’s policy of austerity together with the new ‘Universal Credit’ system which replaced six other benefits, makes millions of people poorer, many hundreds of thousands on the poverty line or below. Whilst people overall voted strongly against Brexit in Scotland, in other parts of the country, poorer constituencies voted largely for Brexit, in a vote against the City of London.