Daily roundup 2 March: Child poverty, Dubs amendment, and alcohol

Theresa May's welfare cuts will help push almost one million more children into relative poverty by 2022 and two thirds of those affected will live in working households, according to the latest projections from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The Independent reports that the findings will heap pressure on the Prime Minister ahead of next week's Budget to live up to her claim that the Conservatives are the "party of the workers".


MPs have voted in favour of keeping open a scheme to bring unaccompanied child refugees to the UK. The BBC reports that 20 Conservative MPs backed a continuation of the so-called Dubs scheme, which is being closed by ministers, in a non-binding vote on the government.


Scottish children as young as nine are being treated for alcohol-related brain damage, with NHS figures showing 163 young people in Glasgow have been affected since January 2011. The Daily Record reports that Alison Douglas, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, said: "Glasgow has the highest rate of alcohol-related hospital stays in Scotland [but] it is particularly concerning that so many children and young people need hospital treatment."


The quality of children's services in Cumbria are improving but practice remains "too variable", inspectors have found. The News & Star reports that Ofsted made the findings during a quarterly monitoring visit to assess the transformation of services in the wake of standards being rated "inadequate" two years ago.


A disused cabin in Trowbridge that has been empty for years has been transformed into a youth centre by a team of volunteers. The Wiltshire Times reports that nearly £500 was raised by 11 young people on a Learning Curve programme, delivered by the Prince's Trust team, which they then used to carry out renovation work at Seymour Cabin in Seymour Road.