From improving the school estate, which is an ongoing project as witnessed this week with the latest list of schools to be refurbished, to individual schools working hard to develop an ethos of hard work and success.

It doesn't stop at the school gates and housing associations who have deliberately altered their allocations policy to allow children a room of their own to provide study and personal space to aid their development is an example of different sectors working to improve the community overall.

We have heard how the 'bedroom tax' will hit people financially and penalise those on benefits, low income families and disabled people and it has rightly been branded "cruel and unfair".

As Cassiltoun Housing Association argue today, it also poses a threat to education and efforts to create safer communities and keep children away from crime.

The list of reasons to scrap the policy is piling up and it is time that the damaging social implications were heeded.

Iain Duncan Smith has visited Glasgow and witnessed the problems that exist, so if he is serious about tackling poverty he should start with axing the bedroom tax.

THERE has been a significant amount of investment gone into improving education in Glasgow in recent years.

From improving the school estate, which is an ongoing project as witnessed this week with the latest list of schools to be refurbished, to individual schools working hard to develop an ethos of hard work and success.

It doesn't stop at the school gates and housing associations who have deliberately altered their allocations policy to allow children a room of their own to provide study and personal space to aid their development is an example of different sectors working to improve the community overall.

We have heard how the 'bedroom tax' will hit people financially and penalise those on benefits, low income families and disabled people and it has rightly been branded "cruel and unfair".

As Cassiltoun Housing Association argue today, it also poses a threat to education and efforts to create safer communities and keep children away from crime.

The list of reasons to scrap the policy is piling up and it is time that the damaging social implications were heeded.

Iain Duncan Smith has visited Glasgow and witnessed the problems that exist, so if he is serious about tackling poverty he should start with axing the bedroom tax.