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Episode summary
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.
Episode notes
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
Authors
Hannah is a Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute. She specialises in applied social policy analysis with a focus on social security, poverty and inequality, labour supply, and immigration.
Spencer is a Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute.