Child welfare
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