Child poverty
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
Modelling packages to meet Scotland’s child poverty targets
Author / Creator: Emma Congreve
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Around 1 in 4 children in Scotland live in relative poverty
Evaluation Strategy for the Attainment Scotland Fund 2022-2026
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
use education to improve outcomes for children and young people impacted by poverty with a focus on tackling the poverty-related attainment gap to deliver on the Scottish Government’s vision of equity and excellence in education
Children Shouldn't be Hungry
Author / Creator: Robin McAlpine
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
In Scotland, a thousand children a year are hospitalised because of malnutrition.
One in five people in Scotland now live in poverty – here’s what’s being done to tackle it
Author / Creator: John H McKendrick
Media type: Article
Date published:
The latest estimate (2018) is that one million people in Scotland are living in relative poverty – that is, after housing costs, they are left with a household income that is below 60% of the national median.