Child poverty rates for disabled households, Scotland
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Rates of relative child poverty have dropped for disabled families over the time period shown, from being around 50% between 1994-97 and 1999-2002, to being closer to 33% from 2011-14 onwards. Rates for families with no disabled adults have followed a similar pattern, but have remained consistently lower than those for families with a disabled adult. In 2019-22, a third of children in families where an adult had a disability were living in relative poverty, compared with 19% of children in families with no disabled adults. 

Households with children, which included a disabled adult, in selected Local Authorities
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The chart above shows the proportion of all households with children in each local authority which also have a disabled adult. In 2019, 17.2% of the households in Glasgow with children included a disabled adult. This is a high rate in the context of the other Scottish cities and the other local authorities that make up the Glasgow City Region. Only Dundee (22%) and North Lanarkshire (22.6%) had higher rates. The lowest rates were in Aberdeen (9.9%) and East Dunbartonshire (10.2%). Glasgow had a higher rate than the Scottish average of 16%, showing that this priority family group is particularly important in the Glasgow context.

Notes

These data come from Scottish Government statistics. This page was last updated in April 2023 and it will be updated again when figures are next released.