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Tag: Poverty

Poverty

June 23, 2026 SPICe

Reading Time: < 1 minuteData dashboard with poverty and deprivation statistics for Scottish Parliament constituencies and other local areas in for Scotland

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How is Scotland Performing?

February 17, 2025 SPICe

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog looks at how Scotland is performing against the 81 National Indicators in the National Performance Framework.

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Scottish Child Payment – who gets it?

July 31, 2024 SPICe

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhile Scottish Child Payment reaches almost every child in poverty, there are even more children above the poverty line who also receive this benefit. 

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Is Scotland going to meet its child poverty targets?

April 16, 2024 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe latest statistics show that Scotland is far from achieving its child poverty targets.

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Removing the Universal Credit uplift: what will be the effect on Scottish households?

September 1, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog looks at the impact on Scottish households of the planned removal of the Universal Credit uplift.

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Scottish Child Payment: where next?

July 19, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Scottish Child Payment was introduced in February 2021. With further changes planned, this blog looks at its current and potential impact on child poverty.

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Scottish Parliament constituency dashboard

May 18, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe dashboard enables Members, their staff, and anyone else with an interest, to gain insights into their constituencies and regions.

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SIMD 2020: the where of deprivation

January 29, 2020 SPICe

Reading Time: 3 minutesA look at latest Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) from the Scottish Government.

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Ending child poverty: the challenge ahead

April 9, 2019 SPICe

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe latest picture on child poverty The Scottish Government’s latest poverty statistics show that – on the most commonly used measure of poverty – child

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Guest Blog – The National Performance Framework

April 16, 2018 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs with all guest blogs, what follows are the views of the author, Jennifer Wallace, Head of Policy at the Carnegie UK Trust, and not those

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