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Publication - Research and analysis

Tackling child poverty - progress report 2023-2024: annex a - measurement framework

Published
17 June 2025
From
Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice
Directorate
Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
Topic
Children and families, Communities and third sector, Equality and rights, +2 more … Programme for Government, Work and skills
ISBN
9781836917410

Child poverty measurement framework with the latest data on the drivers of child poverty. The indicators in the child poverty measurement framework are intended to monitor these drivers of poverty.

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Introduction

The drivers of poverty are summarised in the diagram below. These are: income from employment, costs of living and income from social security and benefits in-kind.

Figure 1: Drivers of child poverty
Drivers of poverty include: income from employment, cost of living and income from social security and benefits in-kind. As part of income from employment, we look at: hourly pay, hours worked per household, skills and qualifications and labour market. Availability of affordable and accessible transport and childcare are both part of income form employment and part of cost of living. As part of cost of living, we have: housing costs, other costs and debts. There are also enablers like access to affordable credit, internet access, savings and assets). In income from social security and benefits in-kind, we look at the generosity of benefits, reach of benefits, eligibility criteria and take up.

The indicators in the child poverty measurement framework are intended to monitor the drivers of poverty. They form part of a wider monitoring and evaluation strategy.

This annex sets out the trends over time for each of the child poverty measurement framework indicators. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 restrictions on the data collection of many national surveys, some indicators show a data gap for all or some of the years 2020-2022. Where the data is available and can be trusted to be reliable and robust, new data and trends have been added.

A summary assessment of what the indicators mean is included in the main progress report.

Contact

Email: TCPU@gov.scot

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