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These findings from Save the Children, commissioned by the New Policy Institute, reveal that 90,000 children across Scotland live in severe poverty - that is 9% of all children in Scotland and over 1 in 3 of all children in poverty. This number has remained stubbornly static for the last four years. The research reveals the local areas where severe child poverty is a major concern. In ten local authorities in Scotland more than one in ten children in Scotland is living in severe poverty. Around 1 in 5 children living in severe poverty in Scotland live in Glasgow. To read the full UK briefing, please refer to the link below: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/assets/images/Severe_Child_Poverty_Nationally_And_Locally_February2011.pdf