The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's assessment of poverty trends over the past decade in Scotland said that child poverty in the country has fallen by a fifth since the late 1990s - similar to the reduction in Wales and some parts of the north east and south west of England.
But in the past three years progress has halted. However Scotland still has the lowest rate of child poverty in the UK, at 25 per cent.
The report says: "The reason why Scotland's performance exceeds that of Great Britain as a whole is that the fall in other English regions has been negligible.
"As a result, the Scottish child poverty rate is now among the lowest of any part of Great Britain."
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