Tackling child poverty delivery plan: fourth year progress report 2021 to 2022

Footnotes

1. Increasing incomes from work and earnings; reducing households costs; maximising incomes from social security and benefits in kind.

2. Priority family types include: Lone parent families, the large majority of which are headed by women; Families which include a disabled adult or child; Larger families; Minority ethnic families; Families with a child under one year old; Families where the mother is under 25 years of age.

3. Focus report on minority ethnic families: Tackling child poverty: first year progress report - Annex C - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4. Focus report on lone parents: Tackling child poverty: second year progress report - annex C - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5. Focus report on families with a disabled person: Tackling child poverty - third year progress report : annex B - child poverty in families with a disabled adult or child - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

6. Overview of the latest evidence on the six priority family types: Tackling child poverty priority families overview - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

7. Source: Supporting documents - Scotland's Devolved Employment Services: statistical summary - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) May 2022

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15. Closing the poverty-related attainment gap: progress report 2016 to 2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

16. Equity Audit (www.gov.scot)

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21. Coronavirus (COVID-19): impact on equality (research) - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

22. Tackling child poverty: third year progress report 2020-2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

23. Child poverty strategy documents - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

24. Further information on historical trends over time: Child poverty summary (data.gov.scot)

25. To note that the priority group most at risk of child poverty is households with a baby aged under 1. However, due to limited sample sizes, the persistent poverty measure was expanded to include children under 5 as a proxy.

26. Additional child poverty analysis 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

27. Tackling child poverty priority families overview - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

28. Tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022-2026 - annex 6: what works - evidence review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

29. Children in Poverty after Housing Costs Who Are in More Than One Priority Group, Additional child poverty analysis 2019 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

30. Previous focus reports are: Minority ethnic households, Lone parents, and households with a disabled person

31. Details on the drivers of child poverty can be found in the 'Child poverty measurement framework'. Child poverty strategy documents - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). For future progress reports on the second delivery plan, Best Start, Bright Futures, the measurement framework has been updated. From 2023 onwards, monitoring of progress will be made on the updated measurement framework.

32. Coronavirus (COVID-19): impact on equality (research) - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

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41. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20 (data.gov.scot), Additional child poverty analysis 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot), Local-responses-to-food-insecurity-Sept-20-21-Full-Report.pdf (shef.ac.uk), 2. Research aims and approach - Coronavirus (COVID-19) support in low income households: evaluation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

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43. The 'cost of living crisis' refers to the fall in 'real' disposable incomes (that is, adjusted for inflation and after taxes and benefits) that the UK has experienced since late 2021. This means that prices of goods and services go up faster than wages and benefits, reducing the amount of money households have.

44. Scotland's finances 2019-2020: key facts and figures - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

45. 2. Research aims and approach - Coronavirus (COVID-19) support in low income households: evaluation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

46. Welfare reform - impact on households with children: report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

47. Tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022-2026 - annex 4: cumulative impact assessment - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

48. A large part of the increase in impact between 2019-20 and 2023-24 is due to the introduction and doubling of the Scottish Child Payment, followed by the further increase to £25 per child per week set out in the Delivery Plan. A number of other policies also come into effect, including mitigation of the Benefit Cap through Discretionary Housing Payments, the introduction of Best Start Foods along with the removal of income limits, the increase in minimum levels of School Clothing Grant, and the extension of universal Free School Meals to all primary school children. The interactions between the policies in the package will also contribute to the cumulative impact.

49. Includes funding for all school meals, including resource costs of providing paid meals

50. Provisional capital spend only

51. Calculation of spend targeted to children is based on latest available data on CTR (22%).

52. Level 4 published budget figure

53. £14.81m Empowering Communities Programme (resource), £41.27m Regeneration Capital Grant Fund (capital), £5m Clyde Gateway (capital), £0.5m Clyde Gateway (resource), £0.02 Business Improvement Districts Place Based Investment Programme £38.15m

54. Total spend of £4.69m. Estimate of targeted spend based on data from funded agencies.

55. This is a forecasted figure

56. Based on published Management Information. Does not take into account backlogged awards made in 2022-23 based on 2021-22 applications

57. Of which £434.5 was additional COVID-19 funding

58. Of which £206.1m was additional COVID-19 funding