Child welfare
SAVING CHILDHOOD IN SCOTLAND: CHILDREN’S ONLINE RIGHTS AND ETHICS
Author / Creator: raig Dalzell
Media type: Report
Date published: 2026
Digital technology has reshaped how children learn, communicate, form relationships, and develop a sense of self, but the systems designed to protect and support children have not kept pace. Scotland now has an opportunity to lead by treating children’s digital wellbeing as a matter of ethics, evidence, and collective responsibility.
The Crisis in Foster Care in Scotland
Author / Creator: Common Weal Care Reform Group
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2025
More children require foster care. More foster carers leave than are recruited. Funding for many aspects of fostering is inadaquet or misplaced.
Keeping the Promise for Scotland’s children and their families
Author / Creator: David Anderson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
The partial failure and potential success of past and present plans to implement recommendations for the Scottish care system
Impact of the Scottish Child Payment on the need for food banks
Author / Creator: Fraser of Allander Institute
Media type: Report
Date published:
Social security policies like the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) are crucial to reducing both poverty and food insecurity. As such, SCP is a key part of the Scottish Government strategies to reduce child poverty and to end the need for food banks in Scotland.
Scottish Child Payment reduces food bank uptake
Author / Creator: David Murray
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
The UK Government has the ability to reduce poverty and deprivation through child payment – but not the will