People relying on social security in Scotland are also being let down by the system. You can hear the words of the End Poverty Scotland Group – a group of people living on low incomes – talking about their experience of social security.

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It is possible for the next Scottish Parliament to meet the Child Poverty Reduction Targets with political will and bold action. You can find the toolkit here:

Our third combined scenario includes an increase of the SCP, targeted social security policies to families most at risk and supporting parents into more and better work, reducing the child poverty rate to 10% and meeting the targets.

While both social security and work policies have significant potential to reduce child poverty on their own, it is only through combining these policies at scale that we can reach the targets. You can see the details of all the policies we modelled here:

We could reduce the number of children in poverty by…. - 60,000 by supporting their parents into work and more work. - 10,000 by increasing take-up of the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) to 100% . - 70,000 by increasing SCP to £100.

The toolkit shows how different policy options can reduce child poverty. We model these policies and see how close they take us to the targets. We don’t suggest one specific policy solution but instead show the scale of the challenge needing to be met.

All political parties agreed to the Scottish Child Poverty Reduction targets in 2017. 240,000 children in Scotland are in poverty. @jrf_uk have launched a toolkit to ensure that the manifestos of these political parties will meet these targets by the end of the next parliament.

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Read the full report which digs into the different drivers of poverty across poverty depths and the families most at risk of experiencing this level of hardship here:.

All politicians must understand the scale of the challenge. For this example family to be lifted over the poverty line, the parents would need to work around 15 extra days a month on the National Living Wage or see an increase in the SCP by around £120 per week per child.