Child poverty
Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
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Best Start, Bright Futures sets out how the Scottish Government will work together to deliver on Scotland's national mission to tackle child poverty. It is not solely a plan for the Scottish Government, it is a plan for all of Scotland, recognising the contribution all parts of society must make to deliver the change needed for children and families.
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
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.