THE Scottish Child Payment should be doubled immediately, a charity has said, following the release of a new study suggesting almost half of children in one-parent families live in relative poverty.
Research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies published by the Guardian on Monday found relative poverty has risen significantly faster for one-parent families across the UK, going up by 9% between 2013-14 and 2019-20, when it reached 49%. According to Scottish Government figures from March of this year, 38% of children living in one-parent families in Scotland are in relative poverty.
