The Holyrood Baby

DWP must share data to enable Scottish Child Payment rollout, MPs say

The Scottish Affairs Committee urged the two governments to work together on wider data-sharing protocols as more benefits are devolved

Father's Day: Kirsty, the Holyrood baby, needs her dad

Often ignored or sidelined, fathers are seen as of lesser importance than mothers in a child’s life

Fewer children treated within mental health waiting time target

More counsellors to provide support to Scottish school pupils

Child poverty ‘could rise to record high’ if Tories win general election, Resolution Foundation warns

Systemic change needed to tackle disadvantage in STEM learning, Holyrood committee reports

New Glasgow evidence suite opened for children and vulnerable witnesses

Associate feature: Ensuring the UNCRC benefits all our children 30 years on

Midwives call for more training in perinatal mental health

More than £200m paid to low income households in Scotland

Number of pensioners expected to increase by 240,000 over next 25 years

North Ayrshire Council becomes first local authority to offer free ‘birth to potty’ real nappy packs

Scottish Child Payment ‘will not bring Scotland close’ to child poverty target

MSPs vote overwhelmingly to introduce smacking ban

Associate feature: Bright future for men in early years

End five week wait for Universal Credit, urges Citizens Advice Scotland

Scottish life expectancy stalls due to drug, dementia and heart disease deaths

MSPs call for halt to next phase in the rollout of Universal Credit

Two thirds of young people believe their generation will be worse off than their parents, report finds

Ministers announce funding for children from low income families over school holidays

Attainment gap dubbed 'national embarrassment'

Extra cash pledge to help close attainment gap

Young asylum seekers to access Best Start Grant pregnancy and baby payment

Maree Todd: 'The circumstances you are born into should never limit the person you grow up to be'

The Holyrood baby - a report card on the third year

The Holyrood baby at three - Kirsty in the middle