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Glasgow City Region

Child poverty across Glasgow City Region

GCRECPto2022This chart compares child poverty rates, after accounting for the cost of housing, among the local authorities in Glasgow City Region (GCR) between the years 2014/15 and 2021/22. Throughout this  period, Glasgow City has had the highest level of child poverty in GCR, rising from 27.1% in 2014/15 to 32% in 2021/22. It had fallen in 2020/21, to 29.4% and a similar pattern was evident across GCR, with rates falling in 2020/21. However, in 2021/22 child poverty rates returned to similar levels to those in 2019/20 and in some cases even higher levels.

Although the figures presented here are from during the COVID-19 pandemic, they pre-date the current cost of living crisis. The amount paid to households receiving Universal Credit was raised by £20 per week between April 2020 and October 2021, and so the figures for 2020/21 cover most of the period of this temporary uplift. End Child Poverty note that experts believe this may be part of the reason why some areas of the UK saw a fall in child poverty.

Notes

The Scottish Government has set targets for reducing child poverty in Scotland. These targets are to reduce child poverty to under 10% by 2030, with an interim target to reduce child poverty to under 18% by 2023-24. If Glasgow were to meet this interim target on its own, its child poverty rate would need to drop by 14% in the next year. 

The Scottish Government report each year on the progress made towards tackling child poverty. Bright Start, Bright Futures, the latest plan for tackling child poverty between 2022 and 2026, was published in March 2022. 

A JRF report, published in October 2021, has more detail on the interim and overall targets and the work needed to meet them. CPAG have responded to the figures shown here, calling for continued and additional investment from both Scottish and UK Governments. 

The data for this graph come from End Child Poverty. Households are defined as living in poverty if their income is less than 60% of the UK median income. 

These figures refer to children aged 0-16 and to families living in poverty after housing costs are taken into account. 

Further reading under ‘Children in poverty’