Aberlour’s Cost of Living and Reducing Child Poverty Briefing for MSPs

Since child poverty targets were set in the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 child poverty has failed to reduce. Most recent official figures show that 1 in 4 children in Scotland continue to live in poverty. It is clear that action taken in recent years hasn’t yet been enough to begin to turn the tide on child poverty or to meet the Scottish Government’s
child poverty targets.

Read our latest briefing paper to MSPs on what more must be done to reduce child poverty in Scotland.