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		<title>Rising Absenteeism in Fife Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 15:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A report presented to the Fife’s Education Scrutiny Committee earlier this month showed that Fife was below the national average for school attendance at both primary and secondary level, although not by much. As of March 20th this year, school attendance in Fife was 92.1 per cent for primary and 85.6 per cent for secondary, &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/05/rising-absenteeism-in-fife-schools/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Rising Absenteeism in Fife Schools"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Scandalous&#8221; levels of child poverty in North East Fife</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 09:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Data released last month by the End Child Poverty Coalition revealed that 27 per cent of children in the St Andrews ward are living in poverty &#8211; the highest in North East Fife, with East Neuk and Landward at 20 per cent, Cupar at 18 per cent and Howe of Fife and Tay Coast at &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2019/06/scandalous-levels-of-child-poverty-in-north-east-fife/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "&#8220;Scandalous&#8221; levels of child poverty in North East Fife"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shocking levels of Poverty in Kirkcaldy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Statistics published by HMRC last month reveal that in the Sinclairtown area of Kirkcaldy 71% of children under the age of 16 are living in poverty in families in receipt of working and child tax credits and with less than 60 per cent of the median (middle) household income. In Gallatown West, the figure is 60%. &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2019/01/shocking-levels-of-poverty-in-kirkcaldy/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Shocking levels of Poverty in Kirkcaldy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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