Date: 10th July 2020
Category: Child poverty

The report examines how a public health approach can be used to address the impacts of adverse childhood experiences though early interventions, which can help protect children from early adversity and build resilience.

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Child poverty

Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Save the Children recently polled 3,000 families with children claiming Universal Credit or Child Tax Credit to discover their experience of COVID-19.

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Child poverty, Education, including vocational education

COVID-19 has magnified the already greater risk of poorer educational outcomes and wellbeing, increased barriers to engagement and reduced participation in school life associated with growing up in poverty. This finding originates from a survey that looked at how household income has affected children’s experiences of education while they learn from home.

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Child poverty

Through a package of £27.6 million of additional funding from Scottish Government, councils will be enabled to continue the provision of free school meals during the summer holidays and other food provision to help low income families during COVID-19.

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Child poverty

A survey of frontline Scottish community organisations found that there have been improvements in emergency food aid provision since the start of lockdown. However, it also highlighted a sense of emerging concern amongst community organisations that the food insecurity crisis is far from over.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Child poverty

New research finds that child poverty rose across the UK between 2014-19 by an overall 2.8%. This is even before the impact of COVID-19 on household incomes which is likely to have deepened child poverty further. The End Child Poverty coalition has called on UK Government to commit to an ambitious strategy to end child poverty.

Date: 11th March 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Child poverty

The Bill, which aims to secure provision of free period products throughout Scotland, passed Stage 1 on 25th February 2020.

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Child poverty, Social security

The analysis, by Dr Eve Hepburn, suggests that Brexit is likely to have both general socioeconomic and legal impacts, as well as specific impacts, for equalities groups. These impacts will differ depending on the type of Brexit that occurs.

Date: 10th December 2019
Category: Child poverty

The report - Protecting the Child from Poverty: The Role of Rights in the Council of Europe - centres on the role of child rights in addressing child poverty in the Council of Europe (COE).

Date: 29th October 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Child poverty, Social security

In the resolution, members of the European Parliament called for measures to address the existing socio-economic differences in the European Union, including an EU Child Guarantee to fight child poverty. The resolution was adopted by 422 votes against 131 with 101 abstentions.

Date: 26th August 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Child poverty

Teach First has published an investigation exploring the difference in results between young people who attend schools in England’s richest and poorest communities.

Date: 26th August 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Child poverty

The report shines a light on the homelessness crisis in England, shares the experiences of children and their parents experiencing homelessness, frontline professionals and calls for immediate action.

Date: 26th August 2019
Category: Education, including vocational education, Child poverty

The report, published by CRIN, looks at the link between the recruitment of young people in the UK and socioeconomic deprivation.

Date: 21st August 2019
Category: Child poverty

National Records of Scotland’s (NRS) figures show that poverty has a stark effect on children’s life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.

Date: 15th July 2019
Category: Right to life, survival and development, Respect for the views of the child, Child poverty

The group of 10-year-olds joined the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights before he formally presented his UK report to the UN Human Rights Council.

Date: 15th July 2019
Category: Child poverty

The Scottish Government has published its first annual progress report under the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017.

Date: 15th July 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Child poverty, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

Is Scotland on track to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals it signed up to four years ago? A new report from Oxfam Scotland, the University of the West of Scotland and SDG Network Scotland assesses progress and what more needs done. 

Date: 15th July 2019
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, Child poverty

The UK’s first Voluntary National Review takes stock of progress towards the 17 Goals.

Date: 15th July 2019
Category: Child poverty

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has published a report on universal credit, asking what needs to change to reduce child poverty and make it fit for families.

Date: 30th April 2019
Category: Child poverty, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Eurochild launched its assessment of the first European Semester since the Proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (November 2017). With the ‘social dimension’ being more visible in this cycle, the European Commission flags child poverty in more than 75% of the Country Reports of EU Member States. Only one country (Spain) received a recommendation to address family income, which only addresses one of the many reasons for child poverty.