EPISODE · Apr 7, 2026 · 31 MIN
Progress on child poverty: New statistics and a final delivery plan
from The Fraser of Allander Institute Podcast · host Hannah Randolph, Spencer Thompson
Participants Prof Stephen Sinclair, GCU & SPIRU Hannah Randolph, FAI Spencer Thompson, FAI Time stamps (1:10) Latest child poverty statistics (4:45) Changes to the Family Resources Survey (12:00) Final child poverty delivery plan (16:10) Child poverty targets (23:20) More on data revisions (25:30) Scale of actions in the delivery plan and distance to the 2030 targets (30:15) A time for optimism
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Professor Stephen Sinclair, co-director of GCU's Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIRU), joins Spencer Thompson and Hannah Randolph to talk through the latest child poverty statistics and the final delivery plan leading up to the 2030/31 child poverty targets. They discuss changes in the data underlying the statistics and the challenges of having ambitious statutory targets, then turn to how the delivery plan leaves a lot of choice for the new government in how they want to tackle child poverty.
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