Tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022-2026 - annex 1: Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 requirements
This annex to Best Start, Bright Futures: the second tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026 explains how we have met the requirements of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017.
Estimating resources allocated
The table below sets out best estimates of the financial resources allocated in support of actions committed within the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022-26. Figures set out should be treated in each case as the upper level of investment.
For each action a summary is included of the anticipated impact and how spend is targeted. Estimates of spend targeted to tackle child poverty will be produced within annual progress reports, informed by actual spend during the relevant financial year.
The cumulative spend figure should therefore be treated with caution on this basis, this figure represents estimates of spend which is of relevance to tackling child poverty – however will not include all relevant spend, e.g. on health services and free prescriptions, or in relation to public contracts which support labour market opportunities.
Key:
Drivers to be impacted:
EMP - Income from employment
HC - Reducing household costs
SS - Maximising income from social security and benefits in kind
LC - Life chances, action to improve family wellbeing and/or children's outcomes
Targeting of funding:
LIFC - Low Income Families with Children
FC - Families with children, not necessarily on low income
LIHH - Low Income Households
DYP - Disadvantaged young people
AYP - Young people, not necessarily on low income
CC - Creating conditions, not necessarily on low income
| Action | Resource (£M) 2022-23 – rounded to £0.1m | Drivers expected to be impacted | Targeting of Spend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Pathfinders | 5.0 | EMP, HC, SS, LC | LIHH, LIFC, CC |
| Social Innovation Partnership | 9.8 | LC, EMP, HC, SS | LIFC, DYP, CC |
| Employability And Skills | |||
| Parental Employment Offer | 81.9 | EMP, HC, SS, LC | LIFC |
| Fair Start Scotland | 23.6 | EMP | LIHH |
| Challenge Fund (employment) | 2.0 | EMP, HC, SS, LC | LIFC |
| Parental Transition Fund | 15.0 | EMP | LIFC |
| Individual Training Accounts | 3.5 | EMP | LIHH |
| National Transition Training Fund | 3.0 | EMP | CC |
| Flexible Workforce Development Fund | 20.0 | EMP | CC |
| Lifetime Skills Offer | 0.0 | EMP | CC |
| Adult Learning Strategy* | 2.0 | EMP | CC |
| NHS demonstrator | 1.0 | EMP | LIFC, DYP |
| Just Transition Fund | 20.0 | EMP | CC |
| Critical Infrastructure | |||
| Early Learning and Childcare (1,140) | 1,006.0 | EMP, HC, LC | FC |
| Further developing early learning and childcare offers | 0.0 | EMP, HC, LC | FC |
| Wraparound / School Age Childcare | 13.0 | EMP, HC, LC | FC |
| Concessionary fares | 110.0 | EMP, HC, LC | CC |
| Network Support Grant | 94.5 | EMP, HC, LC | CC |
| Community Bus Fund | 1.0 | EMP | CC |
| Demand Responsive Transport | 0.1 | EMP | CC |
| Digital Travel Data Systems | TBC | EMP | CC |
| Connecting Scotland | 1.5 | EMP, HC, LC | LIHH |
| Transforming Our Economy | |||
| Scottish Business Pledge | 0.1 | EMP | CC |
| Workplace Equality Fund | 0.8 | EMP | CC |
| Women Returners Project | 1.0 | EMP | FC |
| Fair Flexible Work Programme for Scotland | 0.1 | EMP | CC |
| Real Living Wage / Real Living Hours accreditation | 0.4 | EMP | CC |
| Fair Work First** | N/A** | EMP | CC |
| Public Sector Pay** | N/A** | EMP | CC |
| Community Wealth Building** | N/A** | EMP | CC |
| People and Place | |||
| Whole Family Wellbeing Funding | 50.0 | LC | CC |
| Community Justice Services | 134.0 | LC | CC |
| Throughcare services | 3.7 | LC | CC |
| Prison Visitor Centres | 0.8 | LC | CC |
| Bairns Hoose | 0.0 | LC | CC |
| CashBack for Communities | 7.1 | LC | CC |
| Getting it Right Together | TBC | LC | CC |
| A Whole Family Approach to drug and alcohol support | 6.5 | LC, EMP, SS | CC, DYP |
| Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund | 15.0 | LC | CC |
| 1,000 dedicated staff to grow community mental health resilience | 4.0 | LC | CC |
| Third Sector Fund | 16.0 | LC | LIFC, FC, DYP, AYP, CC |
| STV Appeal | 1.0 | LC, HC, SS | LIFC, DYP |
| Family Fund | 3.0 | LC, HC | LIFC, DYP |
| Equality and Human Rights Fund | 8.1 | LC | CC |
| Place Based Investment Programme | 63.0 | EMP, LC | CC |
| Empowering Communities Programme | 17.0 | HC, EMP, SS, LC | LIFC, FC, DYP, AYP, CC |
| Social Security | |||
| Scottish Child Payment | 225.0 | SS | LIFC |
| Best Start Grant | 18.8 | SS | LIFC |
| Best Start Foods | 13.1 | SS | LIFC |
| Bridging Payments | 57.6 | SS | LIFC |
| Young Carers Grant | 1.0 | SS | DYP |
| Carers Allowance Supplement | 43.2 | SS | LIHH |
| Carers Allowance | 314.9 | SS | LIHH |
| Adult Disability Payment | 1,948.5 | SS | CC |
| Child Disability Payment | 265.0 | SS | CC |
| Child Winter Heating Assistance | 4.0 | SS | CC |
| Low Income Winter Heating Assistance | 21.1 | SS | LIHH |
| School Clothing Grant | 11.8 | SS, LC | LIFC |
| Free School Meals*** | 169.8 | SS, LC | CC, LIFC |
| School meals - holiday provision | 21.8 | SS, LC | LIFC |
| Education Maintenance Allowance | 25.0 | LC, EMP | LIFC |
| Scottish Welfare Fund | 41.0 | SS | LIHH |
| Discretionary Housing Payments | 80.2 | SS | LIHH |
| Benefit Cap Mitigation**** | 7.1 | SS | LIHH |
| Cost of Living Payment | 280.0 | SS | LIHH |
| Council Tax Reduction - revenue foregone | 351.0 | HC, LC | LIHH |
| Establish a data sharing and automation project | 5.0 | SS | CC |
| Income Maximisation | |||
| Social Security Advocacy Service | 5.4 | SS | CC |
| Expand Family Nurse Partnerships | 17.0 | SS, LC | LIFC |
| Building capacity in Health Visitor workforce | 0.3 | LC | FC |
| Health Visitors | 20.0 | LC | FC |
| Information campaign to increase uptake of support | 2.0 | SS, HC, LC | FC |
| Advice in accessible settings | 1.5 | SS, HC | LIHH |
| CPAG second tier advice | 0.7 | SS | LIHH |
| Debt Advice | 6.5 | HC | CC |
| Plan to end the need for foodbanks | 2.4 | LC | LIHH |
| Housing | |||
| Affordable Housing Supply Programme | 831.4 | HC | CC |
| Private rented sector reform | 2.8 | HC | CC |
| Gypsy / Traveller accommodation | 6.0 | HC | CC |
| Heat Transition | TBC | HC | CC |
| Home Energy Scotland | 42.0 | HC | LIHH |
| Warmer Homes Scotland | 55.0 | HC | LIHH |
| Fuel Insecurity Fund | 10.0 | HC | LIHH |
| Rapid Rehousing and Housing First | 8.0 | HC, LC | LIHH |
| Homelessness Support Fund | 23.5 | HC, LC | LIHH |
| Other ending homelessness together spend | 2.0 | HC, LC | LIHH |
| Supporting The Next Generation | |||
| Baby Box | 9.0 | HC, LC | FC |
| Book Bug | 1.7 | LC | FC |
| PlayTalkRead | 0.5 | LC | FC |
| Young Patients Family Fund | 4.0 | HC | FC |
| GIRFEC | 0.6 | LC | FC |
| Renewing Play Parks | 5.0 | LC | FC |
| Promise Partnership Fund | 4.0 | LC | DYP |
| Young Scot NEC | 1.0 | LC | FC |
| Scottish Attainment Challenge | 200.0 | LC | LIFC, DYP |
| Curriculum costs | 8.0 | LC | FC |
| Devices in schools | 15.2 | LC, HC | FC |
| Youth Music Initiative | 9.5 | LC | FC |
| Sistema Scotland | 1.1 | SS, LC | LIFC |
| Scottish Mentoring and Leadership Programme | 3.4 | LC | LIFC, DYP |
| Free Bikes | 1.4 | LC | LIFC |
| Sport and Active Living***** | 54.1 | LC | CC, AYP |
| Youth Work Strategy* | (see adult learning) | LC | AYP |
| Job Start Payment | 1.1 | LC, EMP | DYP, LIFC |
| Young Persons Guarantee | 45.0 | LC, EMP | DYP |
| Scottish Funding Council (SFC) spend | 1,900.0 | LC | AYP |
| Devices in further and higher education | 5.0 | LC | DYP |
| Higher Education Student support budget | 1,017.0 | LC | AYP |
| Care experienced grant | TBC | SS, LC | DYP |
| Extension to Council Tax exemption | 0.0 | LC | AYP |
| Total | 9972.06 | ||
* development and delivery of both the youth work and adult learning strategies
** No specific funding allocation for the purposes of the Delivery Plan
*** Excludes capital resource
**** Anticipated to increase from 2023-24 which will be the first full year of implementation
***** £34.7m for sportscotland, £19.4m for Active Health Lives budget
Contact
Email: TCPU@gov.scot
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