LSE: Deprivation prevented by introduction of Scottish child payment, first cross-nation study finds. Deprivation and food insecurity would be “between 8 and 9 percentage points higher without Scottish child payment”
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LSE: Deprivation prevented by introduction of Scottish child payment, first cross-nation study finds. Deprivation and food insecurity would be “between 8 and 9 percentage points higher without Scottish child payment”
by bottish
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> Emerging evidence from a research project bringing together economists and social policy academics from the Universities of York, Glasgow and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has found “statistically significant reductions in both child material deprivation and food insecurity relative to England, after the introduction of the SCP (Scottish child payment).”
> By comparing trends north and south of the border the researchers find that the effects of the Scottish child payment (SCP) are “considerable in size” and “that both material deprivation and food insecurity would have been between 8 and 9 percentage points higher in Scotland without the SCP.” This equates to over 70,000 fewer Scottish children in either material deprivation or food insecurity than would have been the case without the payments.
Well this is terrible for the SNP, *somehow*…
Yeah, but they’re doing it on purpose!
Great. The rUK should follow suit given their child poverty figures have all been on the rise.
Hope Westminster, Cardiff and Belfast take best practice and implement something similar. What a crying indictment of trickle-down economics this is even needed
I saw this quote recently (it’s from 2023) about the Scottish Governments Scottish Child Payment:
> Prof Danny Dorling, of Oxford University, said the Scottish payment was **the most significant attempt to tackle child poverty seen anywhere in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall.**
> ~ [Child poverty: Could Wales cut rates by copying Scotland?](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67238317)
(This article was on the Wales section of the BBC website.)
**Breaking News : Being a Decent human and Helping the struggling actually improves their quality of life.**
**You know in a world where theres enough for everyone and mountains of food get wasted by supermarkets … noone should actually be struggling in the first place.**
Time and time and time again, we see direct and uncontrovertible evidence that explicitly tackling poverty, child or otherwise, is the single most effective long-term tool for reducing a whole host of very costly societal problems, from drug use, crime, poor education, unemployment, and poor health.
Yet tackling it is always an underfunded afterthought, something left to the charity sector. This is one example of it being done correctly and the results being immense.
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