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Tackling child poverty priority families overview
An overview of evidence on the six priority family types identified as being at higher risk of child poverty. Slide deck can be found in the supporting documents.
Sources
Introduction, Progress towards Child Poverty Targets in Scotland, The priority family types identified continue to be at highest risk of child poverty
- Child poverty summary (data.gov.scot)
- Tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022-2026 - annex 6: what works - evidence review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
- Child poverty - monitoring and evaluation: policy evaluation framework - gov.scot
- Additional child poverty analysis 2026
- Families by family type, regions of England and UK constituent countries - Office for National Statistics
- What do we know about in-work poverty in Scotland? Interim findings, SG 2019
Minority ethnic families
- First year Progress Report 2018-19 Annex C Child Poverty In Minority Ethnic Families
- Ethnicity and poverty in Scotland analysis and reflection on the impact of Covid-19, CRER 2020
- Which groups find it hardest to find a job following a period out of work? - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
- Additional child poverty analysis 2025
- Scotland’s Census 2022 - Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion | Scotland's Census
- Population composition - ScotPHO
Lone parents
- Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan Second year progress report 2019-20 Annex C – Child poverty among lone parent families
- Poverty in Scotland 2022 | JRF // Freeing low-income single parents from in-work poverty’s grip, JRF 2021
- Where’s the Credit? (financialfairness.org.uk)
Disabled person
- Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan Third Year Progress Report 2020-21 Annex B: Child Poverty in Families with a Disabled Adult or Child
- Disability and employment, UK - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
- Cost of living: Impact of rising costs on disabled people - House of Lords Library (parliament.uk)
- report-on-key-findings-from-the-cost-of-living-survey-.pdf (mariecurie.org.uk)
- Move to Universal Credit DWP Legacy Benefit Customers Qualitative Research
Families with three or more children
- NHS Health Scotland: Child poverty in Scotland: priority groups – larger families 2019
- Scottish Household Survey, 2019
- Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2018-22 Annex 2 – Technical Annex
- Child poverty transitions: exploring the routes into and out of poverty 2009 to 2012, Barnes, M., Lord, C. and Chanfreau, J. 2015
- Food Insecurity Tracking | Food Foundation // Family Resources Survey - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Scrapping the two child limit to help end child poverty
Families with child under one
- Tackling child poverty delivery plan: fourth year progress report 2021-2022 - focus report on households with babies under one - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
- Gender and Work in Scotland: Findings from Understanding Society, 2019
- Growing Up in Scotland: Patterns of Maternal Employment and Barriers to Paid Work 2017
- Cost of childcare, Pregnant Then Screwed 2020
- Joint briefing on the impact of COVID-19 on women’s wellbeing, Close the Gap and Engender 2021
- Insecure Labour the realities of insecure work for pregnant women and new mothers Maternity Action 2020
- Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2018-22 Annex 2 – Technical Annex
- What the Cost of Living Crisis means for the diets of infants and young children and recommended actions
- Better for babies: ending poverty among families with babies, Save the Children
Families with mothers aged under 25
- Tackling child poverty delivery plan: fourth year progress report 2021-2022 - focus report on households with mothers aged 25 or under - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
- Joint briefing on the impact of COVID-19 on women’s wellbeing, Close the Gap and Engender 2021
- GUS The Experiences of Mothers Aged Under 20, 2014
- Prevalence and Social Inequality in Experiences of Domestic Abuse Among Mothers of Young Children: A Study Using National Survey Data from Scotland, Skafida, V., Morrison, F., Devaney, J., 2021
- Babies in Lockdown - Listening to parents to build back better, Home-Start 2020
- Weathering the Storm, Poverty Alliance 2021
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) - experiences of vulnerable children, young people, and parents, SG 2021
- Personal and economic well-being in Great Britain: January 2021
Gender and poverty
Other marginalised groups at risk of poverty
- Tackling child poverty - progress report 2023-2024: annex B - focus report on other marginalised groups at risk of poverty
- Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland: an analysis of Scotland’s Census 2022