Bringing Hope, Building Futures: Tackling child poverty delivery plan 2026-2031 – annex 2: Analysis of consultation and engagement

Appendix B: Overview of engagement

Call for evidence

The following organisations submitted responses to the call for evidence:

Aberdeen City Council

Aberlour

Achieve More Scotland

Advice Direct Scotland

Advice UK

Aberdeen Football Club Community Trust

Angus Council/Angus Community Planning Partnership

Argyll and Bute Council

BEMIS

Carers Trust Scotland

Cerebral Palsy Scotland

Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland (CYPCS)

Citizens Advice Scotland

Clackmannanshire Council

Close the Gap, Engender and Scottish Women’s Aid

Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER)

Columba 1400

Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

COSLA

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland

Developing the Young Workforce (DYW)

Director General for Health and Social Care – Scottish Government

Dumfries and Galloway Council

Dyslexia Scotland

East Ayrshire Council and Health and Social Care Partnership

East Lothian Partnership

East Renfrewshire Council

Eilean Siar

End Child Poverty Coalition

Engage Renfrewshire

Falkirk Council

Families Outside

Family Fund

Fife Council

Fife International

Glasgow City Council

Glasgow Disability Alliance

Highland Council

Home Start UK

Includem

Inspiring Scotland

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

King's Trust

Learning Link Scotland

Magic Breakfast

MCR Pathways

Mental Health Foundation

Midlothian Council

Migration Policy Scotland

Moray Council

National Autistic Society Scotland

Nesta

NHS 24

NHS Borders

NHS Fife

NHS Grampian

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

NHS Lanarkshire

NHS Lothian

NHS Tayside

North Ayrshire Council

North Lanarkshire Council

NRPF Partnership - Principle Consulting

One Parent Families Scotland

Parenting Across Scotland

Perth and Kinross Council

Poverty Alliance

Public Health Scotland & Scottish Directors of Public Health

Save the Children

Scottish Borders Council

Scottish Library and Information Council

Scottish Women's Convention

SCVO

Sistema Scotland

South Lanarkshire Council

Stirling Council

The Promise Team

The Wise Group

The Young Women's Movement

Trussell

UNICEF

University of Aberdeen = Centre for Healthcare Education Research and Innovation

University of Strathclyde – Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice

University of Strathclyde – Fraser of Allander Institute

University of Strathclyde – Scottish Health Equity Research Unit (SHERU)

West Lothian Council

Stakeholder-led workshops

The following organisations hosted discussions with their existing networks, stakeholders and partner organisations:

Flexibility Works

Improvement Service

• Child Poverty Peer Support Network
• Scottish Community Planning Network
• Fairer Future Partnerships Network

Migration Policy Scotland

National Suicide Prevention Advisory Group

Poverty Alliance

Public Health Scotland

Royal Society of Edinburgh

Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIRU)

STV Children's Appeal

Stakeholder-led engagement with people with lived experience

The following organisations hosted discussions with lived experience of poverty and other forms of disadvantage, through stakeholders’ existing networks and forums:

Aberlour

Changing Realities

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)

MCR Pathways

Migration Policy Scotland

Poverty Alliance

Sistema Scotland

Young Scot