Child Poverty: A step in the right direction

Gingerbread's view: Spring Statement risks child poverty strategy

Last week’s Spring Statement put the success of the government’s promised child poverty strategy at serious risk. For Gingerbread the strategy is of key importance given that single-parent households are almost twice as likely as couple households to be living in poverty.   As part of the Spring Statement, the government’s confirmed plans for disability welfare cuts and published an assessment of the cuts which set out that 50,000 more children …

Child Poverty: A step in the right direction

FRASER OF ALLANDER INSTITUTE ANALYSIS This week, the Scottish Government released headline child poverty statistics for 2023-24. The big headline is: we’ve missed the interim child poverty targets. But what does that mean? And what comes next (write Fraser of Allander Institute’s HANNAH RANDOLPH, EMMA CONGREVE and CHIRSTY McFADYEN)? What do the new statistics say? First, our usual note on the data: poverty rates are usually presented as a three-…