Swinney: 'Eradicating child poverty will become more challenging due to Spring Statement'

Weekly Update – Poverty statistics, Financial insecurity of adults with learning disabilities and, of course, the Spring Statement

It’s been a busy week in the institute! We’ve had a lot of content to put out this week, and have also recorded a podcast on the Spring Statement that we put out this afternoon – so listen to at your leisure! In this blog, we’ll do a quick round up of our outputs this week – and some bonus chat on employer NICs compensation! Child poverty falls in Scotland but statutory targets are missed New poverty statistics for 2023/24 were released yesterda…

Child poverty in Scotland falls - Graeme Dey

UK Government decisions ‘hold back further progress’. New statistics show that child poverty in Scotland has fallen, in contrast to the rest of the UK. Annual statistics published today show that compared with the previous year’s statistics, relative child poverty in 2023-24 reduced from 26% to 22% in Scotland while absolute child poverty fell from 23% to 17%. UK Poverty statistics published today show levels of relative child poverty at 31% and…

Eradicating child poverty ‘more challenging’ after spring statement – Swinney

John Swinney has said efforts to eradicate child poverty will be “more challenging” as a result of the welfare changes made in the Chancellor’s spring statement. The First Minister (pictured)

Swinney: 'Eradicating child poverty will become more challenging due to Spring Statement'

'The Scottish Government is concerned by a number of details within the UK Government's spring statement,' Swinney said.