I looked at the Scottish Governments own website, as I said in my previous post it depends entirely on what figures you are talking about. Absolute poverty, relative poverty, poverty with housing costs or poverty without housing costs..?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy Bee
https://www.gov.scot/publications/poverty-income-inequality-scotland-2014-17/pages/4/
It is estimated that 19% of children, or 180,000 children each year, were in relative poverty before housing costs in 2014-17. This compares to 17% in the previous three-year period.
After housing costs, it is estimated that 24% of children, or 230,000 children each year, were in relative poverty.
And the latest from the SG and the Child Poverty Action Group.
https://cpag.org.uk/news/official-child-poverty-statistics#:~:text=Today's%20official%20Scottish%2 0government%20poverty,working%20age%20adults%20(21 %25).
"The latest statistics show that relative child poverty levels in Scotland are six percentage points lower than the UK average – 23% compared to 30% in 2021-24 (31% England, 31% Wales and 24% NI)"
