Briefing for Scottish Government debate: Addressing child poverty through education

Schools play a crucial role in addressing child poverty. While they can’t single handedly ‘solve’ child poverty and should never be expected to, schools mitigate some of its impacts, help to reduce household costs, boost family incomes and support children on lower incomes to learn, thrive and achieve their potential. In this briefing, we highlight the policies needed to support schools in taking on this task while wider work happens to increase family incomes.