One in five children in the country live below the poverty line, and the study suggests this results in costs to services such as social work and housing of between £0.5bn and £0.75bn. Long term problems associated with child poverty, such as underachievement at school and unemployment, could cost the Scottish economy an additional £1bn a year. The Scottish Government, which commissioned the research, responded to the findings by promising to bring in a cross-government framework to tackle child poverty by the...