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This briefing looks at the scale and distribution of child poverty in Scotland. Almost one in four children in Scotland was living in relative poverty in Scotland. Current levels of child poverty are not inevitable: they have changed over time in both Britain and Scotland. Projections of child poverty levels in Scotland suggest these are likely to increase unless concerted action is taken.

This briefing looks at how poverty can impact on children’s health, education and development, and how this creates inequalities in Scotland.

This review and summary report examines the effectiveness of health and wellbeing interventions in a school setting to potentially reduce inequalities in educational outcomes.

These reports focus on child poverty in larger families. They describe the issues faced by these families and what can be done to reduce child poverty in this priority group.

This briefing explores child poverty and its relationship to health and wellbeing.

This document provides a summary of agreed actions and proposed timescales following the National Advisory Group for Delayed Discharge Information meeting on 12 May 2021 and provides an update as at March 2022.

This review describes the types of interventions used to reduce risk of drug harms, including death, among adults during transition of care and between services.

Leaflets about the COVID-19 vaccine for eligible children aged 6 months to 11 years who are at higher risk of COVID-19 in large print.

The Resource Allocation Formula is used to inform the allocation of around 70% of the total NHS budget to each of the fourteen NHS boards in Scotland.

Following a call for an independent review of the structure, function and deliverables of the Scottish Health Protection Network (SHPN), a review team was established to assess the effectiveness of the current structure and operation of the SHPN against its stated aims and objectives, consider whether the current structure best promotes shared ownership and joint working, undertake an inventory of current resources, and map current resource against any amended structure or ways of working to identify any gaps in resource or expertise.