The Church of Scotland is backing a new campaign urging the Scottish Government to raise child benefit by £5 per person per week.
The Give Me Five campaign, officially launched at the end of August, urges the Government to use its new powers to vary welfare payments. Campaigners say the £5 increase would lift 30,000 children out of poverty.
The Moderator of the General Assembly, the Rt Rev Dr Derek Browning, said: “It is a political, social and moral imperative that we act now to effect change for the good. “The Church of Scotland stands alongside people of all faith traditions, and none, in the move towards fairness for all our children.”