Scottish Child Payment: position paper - June 2019

Process of development of the Scottish Child Payment and the expected policy impacts it will have.


Footnotes

1. 1 Advice on the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2018, https://povertyinequality.scot/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Child-Poverty-Delivery-Plan-advice-Final-Version-23-February-2018.pdf

2. 2 Full details of the process to determine options are set out in the analysis published alongside the first update report on the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan. [www.gov.scot/isbn/9781787819603]

3. 3 The modelling is set out in detail in Analysis of Options for the Income Supplement

4. 4 The impacts set out in this paper are based on Scottish Government's own analysis using DWP's Policy Simulation Model for Scotland

5. 5 Decile analysis breaks the entire population of children in Scotland into ten equal groups.

Contact

Email: Gary.Murdie@gov.scot

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