Search: Child poverty action plan welcome but more affordable homes required, says CIH Scotland

Shelter Scotland has called for more social housing to be built after new figures revealed that a child has been made homeless every 37 minutes in Scotland over the past year.

England's Housing Ombudsman has followed the commencement of Awaab’s Law with a new severe maladministration report that focuses on damp and mould. 

Families of almost 45,000 disabled children and young people are set to receive winter heating support, as Scotland’s unique benefit marks its fifth anniversary.   Child Winter Heating Payments will be issued from next week to families caring for children with the highest disability suppo

All disabled children and young people in Scotland who receive disability benefits will now be paid directly from Social Security Scotland. Those children and young people who receive Child Disability Payment will also benefit from a review system different to that of the wider UK, one based on dign

One of the largest providers of affordable housing and care in England has been ordered to pay almost £15,000 in compensation following a number of failings including vulnerable children living in damp and mould for three years and another resident with fungi growing in one of the bedrooms.

The threshold from which parents start to pay back child benefit should be increased to help support families through the cost-of-living crisis, the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) has said.

Thousands of families of disabled children and young people received an additional £214.10 to help heat their homes this winter, according to the latest official statistics for Child Winter Heating Assistance. More than 26,000 payments worth £5.7 million were made for winter 2022/2023, &

A new school holiday campaign being launched this week is urging everyone in Highland to enjoy plenty of summertime fun with extended family and friends, but to be alert for signs that the lockdown experience was anything but fun for some children. As Highland schools prepare to ring the end of term

Children First has warned that children trapped in a mental health crisis with nowhere to turn must not become the “new normal”.

A national residential rehabilitation service designed to support women and their children through recovery has been officially opened in Dundee.

Children’s charity Aberlour will receive a grant of more than £5.5 million over this parliamentary term to develop two Mother and Child Residential Recovery Houses, including one developed in partnership with Hillcrest. The houses will be designed to enable children of women with problem

HMRC was wrong to refuse a backdated claim for child tax credits for asylum seekers who had been granted refugee status, a judge in the Court of Session has ruled in the first successful social security test case for asylum seekers and tax credits in the UK.

Thousands of families of disabled children in Scotland have received an additional £200 to help heat their homes this winter. More than 13,000 families of a disabled child, on the highest rate care component of Disability Living Allowance for Children, have had a Child Winter Heating Assistanc

Up to six unaccompanied child asylum seekers are to be brought to East Ayrshire as part of a resettlement deal. East Ayrshire Council's cabinet agreed the proposal after it previously been granted by East Ayrshire's Integrated Joint Board (IJB).

Child victims and witnesses of crime in Aberdeenshire are set to benefit from their own Bairns Hoose - a transformative space designed to support children as they recover from trauma and harm.