The pledged Whole Family Wellbeing Fund aims to offer early support to families to avert crisis, backed by £500m investment, with £50m earmarked for 2022/23.
Mental health issues, poverty, alcohol and drug use, as well as poor educational attainment are among challenges the fund will look to address.
The pledge has been made in the Scottish government’s Keeping the Promise implementation plan, its Covid-delayed response to the Independent Care Review’s 2020 report The Promise that called for a “radical overhaul” of Scotland’s care system.
The government’s response says that the Whole Family Wellbeing Fund “is strategic investment to transform the delivery of family support and this change will contribute to tackling child poverty and significantly reduce the number of children and young people who are living away from their families”.
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