Scotland will miss child poverty targets without vast cash boost – report

Report highlights 'massive gap between scale of ambition and scale of resources allocated'

The Scottish government will miss its own child poverty targets unless it substantially increases investment, according to a report on last December's budget published by the independent Poverty and Inequality Commission.

The report highlights "a massive gap between the scale of Scotland's ambition to tackle child poverty and the scale of resources allocated to delivering that commitment", according to the Scottish branch of the charity Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).