Cara Hilton
@carahilton.bsky.social
Mum of 3 | Senior Policy & Public Affairs Manager for an anti-poverty charity | Enjoy sunshine ☀️ long walks 🚶🏻♀️Italian food 🇮🇹 | Lego | Live in Dunfermline | Personal Account - My Views
We’re all set up and ready for #COSLA2025 in St Andrews.
If you’re attending, come and visit us at Stand 16 to chat about how we build #CashFirst communities and end hunger in Scotland.
If you’re attending, come and visit us at Stand 16 to chat about how we build #CashFirst communities and end hunger in Scotland.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by Cara Hilton
Scotland’s Forgotten Children - The Herald’s campaign to fight child poverty - has been shortlisted for the #MakingaDifference Award 2025 for best regional campaign.
VOTE HERE: newsmediauk.org/making-a-dif...
Voting closes at 5pm on Thursday, November 6.
VOTE HERE: newsmediauk.org/making-a-dif...
Voting closes at 5pm on Thursday, November 6.
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Scotland’s Forgotten Children - The Herald’s campaign to fight child poverty - has been shortlisted for the #MakingaDifference Award 2025 for best regional campaign.
VOTE HERE: newsmediauk.org/making-a-dif...
Voting closes at 5pm on Thursday, November 6.
VOTE HERE: newsmediauk.org/making-a-dif...
Voting closes at 5pm on Thursday, November 6.
Reposted by Cara Hilton
🚨A RECORD 4.5 MILLION CHILDREN NOW LIVE IN POVERTY IN THE UK - a shocking & shameful 31% of all children
Ending the two-child limit would lift 470,000 children out of poverty NOW.
I’m joining Trussell in calling on the chancellor to end this cruel policy. Please join us🙏
youtu.be/xdtRtkOio8Y?...
Ending the two-child limit would lift 470,000 children out of poverty NOW.
I’m joining Trussell in calling on the chancellor to end this cruel policy. Please join us🙏
youtu.be/xdtRtkOio8Y?...
🚨A RECORD 4.5 MILLION CHILDREN NOW LIVE IN POVERTY IN THE UK - its a shocking 31% of all children
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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October 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🚨A RECORD 4.5 MILLION CHILDREN NOW LIVE IN POVERTY IN THE UK - a shocking & shameful 31% of all children
Ending the two-child limit would lift 470,000 children out of poverty NOW.
I’m joining Trussell in calling on the chancellor to end this cruel policy. Please join us🙏
youtu.be/xdtRtkOio8Y?...
Ending the two-child limit would lift 470,000 children out of poverty NOW.
I’m joining Trussell in calling on the chancellor to end this cruel policy. Please join us🙏
youtu.be/xdtRtkOio8Y?...
Great to join campaigners, colleagues and friends in sunny Edinburgh ☀️ to demand better from both our Governments!
✅ Better jobs
✅ Better investment in life’s essentials
✅ Better social security
#WeDemandBetter #ScotlandDemandsBetter
✅ Better jobs
✅ Better investment in life’s essentials
✅ Better social security
#WeDemandBetter #ScotlandDemandsBetter
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Great to join campaigners, colleagues and friends in sunny Edinburgh ☀️ to demand better from both our Governments!
✅ Better jobs
✅ Better investment in life’s essentials
✅ Better social security
#WeDemandBetter #ScotlandDemandsBetter
✅ Better jobs
✅ Better investment in life’s essentials
✅ Better social security
#WeDemandBetter #ScotlandDemandsBetter
October 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Reposted by Cara Hilton
📢Today's the day!
Today we are marching together for a better Scotland.
Join us as #WeDemandBetter
March assembles from 10am (buses arriving from 9:30am) at Scottish Parliament.
Today we are marching together for a better Scotland.
Join us as #WeDemandBetter
March assembles from 10am (buses arriving from 9:30am) at Scottish Parliament.
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
📢Today's the day!
Today we are marching together for a better Scotland.
Join us as #WeDemandBetter
March assembles from 10am (buses arriving from 9:30am) at Scottish Parliament.
Today we are marching together for a better Scotland.
Join us as #WeDemandBetter
March assembles from 10am (buses arriving from 9:30am) at Scottish Parliament.
Reposted by Cara Hilton
This weekend thousands of people will march to say Scotland Demands Better.
I’ll always raise the issue of food insecurity and work with the Government and @trusselluk.bsky.social @trussellscot.bsky.social to end it.
See you at the @povertyalliance.org march on Saturday ✊
I’ll always raise the issue of food insecurity and work with the Government and @trusselluk.bsky.social @trussellscot.bsky.social to end it.
See you at the @povertyalliance.org march on Saturday ✊
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This weekend thousands of people will march to say Scotland Demands Better.
I’ll always raise the issue of food insecurity and work with the Government and @trusselluk.bsky.social @trussellscot.bsky.social to end it.
See you at the @povertyalliance.org march on Saturday ✊
I’ll always raise the issue of food insecurity and work with the Government and @trusselluk.bsky.social @trussellscot.bsky.social to end it.
See you at the @povertyalliance.org march on Saturday ✊
Reposted by Cara Hilton
❗ The two-child limit is pushing families with children to food banks.
This policy is unfair and cruel. And it's time to end it.
📧 Email your MP now to call on the Chancellor to end the two-child limit 👇
bit.ly/4ovyIAj
This policy is unfair and cruel. And it's time to end it.
📧 Email your MP now to call on the Chancellor to end the two-child limit 👇
bit.ly/4ovyIAj
October 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
❗ The two-child limit is pushing families with children to food banks.
This policy is unfair and cruel. And it's time to end it.
📧 Email your MP now to call on the Chancellor to end the two-child limit 👇
bit.ly/4ovyIAj
This policy is unfair and cruel. And it's time to end it.
📧 Email your MP now to call on the Chancellor to end the two-child limit 👇
bit.ly/4ovyIAj
Every child deserves a decent start in life yet right now 1 in 4 are growing up in families unable to afford the essentials.
Our social security system must do better. The cruel two child limit must be scrapped across the UK.
📧 Email your MP now 👇
action.trussell.org.uk/tell-your-mp...
Our social security system must do better. The cruel two child limit must be scrapped across the UK.
📧 Email your MP now 👇
action.trussell.org.uk/tell-your-mp...
Tell your MP the two-child limit must be fully removed
No child should know what a food bank is, let alone need one. But almost a third of food bank parcels provided by the Trussell community go to families with three or more children. We all know how qui...
action.trussell.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Every child deserves a decent start in life yet right now 1 in 4 are growing up in families unable to afford the essentials.
Our social security system must do better. The cruel two child limit must be scrapped across the UK.
📧 Email your MP now 👇
action.trussell.org.uk/tell-your-mp...
Our social security system must do better. The cruel two child limit must be scrapped across the UK.
📧 Email your MP now 👇
action.trussell.org.uk/tell-your-mp...
I’ve now swapped the escapism of Disney Paris for some Parisian culture 🇫🇷
October 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I’ve now swapped the escapism of Disney Paris for some Parisian culture 🇫🇷
Luca is only here now thanks to the specialist care he got when born at 33 weeks in Kirkcaldy. I’m shocked the @scotgov are planning to close the neonatal unit at the Vic.
This will endanger babies lives.
Sign now to protect neonatal units in Scotland petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
This will endanger babies lives.
Sign now to protect neonatal units in Scotland petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
Petition: Stop the proposed centralisation of specialist neonatal units in NHS Scotland
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to stop the planned downgrading of established and high-performing specialist neonatal intensive care services across NHS Scotland fr...
petitions.parliament.scot
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Luca is only here now thanks to the specialist care he got when born at 33 weeks in Kirkcaldy. I’m shocked the @scotgov are planning to close the neonatal unit at the Vic.
This will endanger babies lives.
Sign now to protect neonatal units in Scotland petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
This will endanger babies lives.
Sign now to protect neonatal units in Scotland petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
Reposted by Cara Hilton
Children in Scotland are 4x as likely to be in poverty if they are in two or more of the priority families that Scottish gov identified to highlight children at greater risk of poverty.
Politicians must recognise the intersections between these groups 📢
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VqCa3k5gtLQ
Politicians must recognise the intersections between these groups 📢
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VqCa3k5gtLQ
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October 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Children in Scotland are 4x as likely to be in poverty if they are in two or more of the priority families that Scottish gov identified to highlight children at greater risk of poverty.
Politicians must recognise the intersections between these groups 📢
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VqCa3k5gtLQ
Politicians must recognise the intersections between these groups 📢
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VqCa3k5gtLQ
1 million people in Scotland faced hunger last year. This isn’t right, we should all be able to afford the essentials.
On 25th October, join #ScotlandDemandsBetter to demand better jobs, better social security & better public services, for all of us.
👉 scotland-demands-better.com/march-and-ra...
On 25th October, join #ScotlandDemandsBetter to demand better jobs, better social security & better public services, for all of us.
👉 scotland-demands-better.com/march-and-ra...
October 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
1 million people in Scotland faced hunger last year. This isn’t right, we should all be able to afford the essentials.
On 25th October, join #ScotlandDemandsBetter to demand better jobs, better social security & better public services, for all of us.
👉 scotland-demands-better.com/march-and-ra...
On 25th October, join #ScotlandDemandsBetter to demand better jobs, better social security & better public services, for all of us.
👉 scotland-demands-better.com/march-and-ra...
Day 5 of #ChallengePovertyWeek and a reminder that last year a shocking 1 MILLION people in Scotland faced hunger due to a lack of money. #WeDemandBetter.
Everyone in a rich nation like Scotland should be able to afford the essentials.
Everyone in a rich nation like Scotland should be able to afford the essentials.
October 10, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Reposted by Cara Hilton
We know public debt traps families in poverty and holds them there. Our research into the public debt crisis, with @opfs.org.uk & @trussellscot.bsky.social, highlights how families with a disabled child are at higher risk of being trapped in poverty due to public debt. #CPW25 #ChallengePoverty
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We know public debt traps families in poverty and holds them there. Our research into the public debt crisis, with @opfs.org.uk & @trussellscot.bsky.social, highlights how families with a disabled child are at higher risk of being trapped in poverty due to public debt. #CPW25 #ChallengePoverty
Reposted by Cara Hilton
It’s Day 3 of #ChallengePoverty week & we’re calling for better investment in life’s essentials to ensure everyone has a warm homes and access to better public transport and public services. #WeDemandBetter
Read more here 👇
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
Read more here 👇
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
October 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
It’s Day 3 of #ChallengePoverty week & we’re calling for better investment in life’s essentials to ensure everyone has a warm homes and access to better public transport and public services. #WeDemandBetter
Read more here 👇
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
Read more here 👇
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Cara Hilton
Today, with Unity Consulting Scotland, we’ve launched our new research into School Meal Debt in England. Our research indicates that 1 in 4 children in England not in receipt of FSM have school meal debt. No child should be burdened with debt or denied a school meal due to financial hardship.
October 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Today, with Unity Consulting Scotland, we’ve launched our new research into School Meal Debt in England. Our research indicates that 1 in 4 children in England not in receipt of FSM have school meal debt. No child should be burdened with debt or denied a school meal due to financial hardship.
Reposted by Cara Hilton
It’s Day 2 of #ChallengePoverty week. With 1 in 4 referred to @trusselluk.bsky.social
food banks in Scotland in work, we must see action to ensure every job has a living wage and living hours & to make work accessible for all.
#WeDemandBetter
More here 👇
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
food banks in Scotland in work, we must see action to ensure every job has a living wage and living hours & to make work accessible for all.
#WeDemandBetter
More here 👇
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
October 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
It’s Day 2 of #ChallengePoverty week. With 1 in 4 referred to @trusselluk.bsky.social
food banks in Scotland in work, we must see action to ensure every job has a living wage and living hours & to make work accessible for all.
#WeDemandBetter
More here 👇
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
food banks in Scotland in work, we must see action to ensure every job has a living wage and living hours & to make work accessible for all.
#WeDemandBetter
More here 👇
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Cara Hilton
Around 1 in 4 children in Scotland are living in poverty.
Poverty remains far too high, and people are feeling overlooked and ignored by politicians.
The next Scottish Parliament is an opportunity to build a better future for all children in Scotland. 🔽 1/4
Poverty remains far too high, and people are feeling overlooked and ignored by politicians.
The next Scottish Parliament is an opportunity to build a better future for all children in Scotland. 🔽 1/4
October 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Around 1 in 4 children in Scotland are living in poverty.
Poverty remains far too high, and people are feeling overlooked and ignored by politicians.
The next Scottish Parliament is an opportunity to build a better future for all children in Scotland. 🔽 1/4
Poverty remains far too high, and people are feeling overlooked and ignored by politicians.
The next Scottish Parliament is an opportunity to build a better future for all children in Scotland. 🔽 1/4
Will you be at #SNP25 this weekend? Come and join #EndChildPoverty's fringe event to explore what must happen now to meet the 2030 child poverty targets
🗓️Saturday 11th October, 12:30-13:30
📍Meeting Room 4, TECA (Aberdeen)
🗓️Saturday 11th October, 12:30-13:30
📍Meeting Room 4, TECA (Aberdeen)
October 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Will you be at #SNP25 this weekend? Come and join #EndChildPoverty's fringe event to explore what must happen now to meet the 2030 child poverty targets
🗓️Saturday 11th October, 12:30-13:30
📍Meeting Room 4, TECA (Aberdeen)
🗓️Saturday 11th October, 12:30-13:30
📍Meeting Room 4, TECA (Aberdeen)
Reposted by Cara Hilton
Everyone should be able to afford the essentials and a Minimum Income Guarantee would provide a secure foundation for all of us.
#ChallengePoverty #WeDemandBetter
Learn more here:
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
#ChallengePoverty #WeDemandBetter
Learn more here:
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
October 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Everyone should be able to afford the essentials and a Minimum Income Guarantee would provide a secure foundation for all of us.
#ChallengePoverty #WeDemandBetter
Learn more here:
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
#ChallengePoverty #WeDemandBetter
Learn more here:
www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Cara Hilton
Campaingers need to change the way they talk about child poverty - really interesting practical tokit launched today by @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @savechildrenuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Campaigners urged to tell new story on child poverty in Scotland
Charities launch practical guide for campaigners, saying ‘the way we talk about it doesn’t always help’
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Campaingers need to change the way they talk about child poverty - really interesting practical tokit launched today by @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @savechildrenuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reposted by Cara Hilton
We’re really excited to be at @savechildrensco.bsky.social & @jrf-uk.bsky.social Changing the Story launch today in Edinburgh.
Looking forward to a inspiring day focused on how we tell the new story of child poverty in Scotland 🏴
Looking forward to a inspiring day focused on how we tell the new story of child poverty in Scotland 🏴
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We’re really excited to be at @savechildrensco.bsky.social & @jrf-uk.bsky.social Changing the Story launch today in Edinburgh.
Looking forward to a inspiring day focused on how we tell the new story of child poverty in Scotland 🏴
Looking forward to a inspiring day focused on how we tell the new story of child poverty in Scotland 🏴
Reposted by Cara Hilton
📢Without action, families with children will see their incomes fall by the end of this Parliament.
But our new analysis shows it doesn't have to be this way.
Scrapping the two-child limit and adding a protected minimum floor into Universal Credit could reverse this trend. 🧵
But our new analysis shows it doesn't have to be this way.
Scrapping the two-child limit and adding a protected minimum floor into Universal Credit could reverse this trend. 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
📢Without action, families with children will see their incomes fall by the end of this Parliament.
But our new analysis shows it doesn't have to be this way.
Scrapping the two-child limit and adding a protected minimum floor into Universal Credit could reverse this trend. 🧵
But our new analysis shows it doesn't have to be this way.
Scrapping the two-child limit and adding a protected minimum floor into Universal Credit could reverse this trend. 🧵
Reposted by Cara Hilton
As they arrive at the Labour Party Conference, we're greeting Keir Starmer and his MPs with a message that demands a screen bigger than 21,000 mobile phones*:
"What was the point of winning the general election if not to lift kids out of poverty?"
1/3
"What was the point of winning the general election if not to lift kids out of poverty?"
1/3
September 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
As they arrive at the Labour Party Conference, we're greeting Keir Starmer and his MPs with a message that demands a screen bigger than 21,000 mobile phones*:
"What was the point of winning the general election if not to lift kids out of poverty?"
1/3
"What was the point of winning the general election if not to lift kids out of poverty?"
1/3