That the Parliament welcomes the Scottish Government’s delivery of the Scottish Child Payment (SCP), which, it believes, is crucial to the Scottish Government’s aims to reduce child poverty and end the need for food banks in Scotland; further welcomes reports that, overall, Scottish Government policies, including the SCP, are estimated to be keeping 100,000 children in Scotland out of relative poverty; regrets the increased demand for foodbanks in recent years, following what it considers to be 14 years of UK Government austerity and the current cost of living crisis; understands that the Trussell Trust network distributed a record number of emergency food parcels across the UK in 2023-24, exceeding 3.1 million parcels, including 262,400 parcels distributed in Scotland in 2023-24, with 86,000 of these for children; notes Trussell Trust statistics showing that Scotland has had the lowest increase of the four nations in food parcel distribution in the five year period 2018-19 to 2023-24, with an increase of 21%, compared with a 109% increase in England; further notes that Scotland is the only nation to have seen a decrease in the number of parcels distributed by the Trussell Trust in 2023-24 compared with the previous year; considers that the data from the Trussell Trust, although insightful and important, does not offer a full picture of food bank use in Scotland, as there is a wide range of charitable food provision that is not as comprehensively recorded; commends organisations such as East Kilbride Community Food Bank and Loaves and Fishes for supporting people in East Kilbride; understands that preliminary research from the Fraser of Allander Institute, commissioned by the Trussell Trust, which reports on the impact of the Scottish Child Payment on food bank use, indicates that, since the roll-out of the SCP, there has been a statistically significant decrease in the numbers of parcels provided to households with children aged five to 16 (without younger children) and single-adult households with children under five; notes the calls on the next UK administration to scrap the two-child limit and introduce an Essentials Guarantee, to ensure that people on Universal Credit have enough money for living, and notes the view that such measures could lift thousands more people out of poverty; further notes the view that further monitoring and research is required to identify the impact of SCP over a longer time period; acknowledges that the Social Justice and Social Security Committee had an evidence session related to the Scottish Child Payment on 23 May 2024; notes Professor Ruth Patrick’s analysis that the Scottish Child Payment is a “really well-targeted policy” and is a “way of correcting” the UK Government’s “divorcing of the relationship between needs and entitlement”, Professor Danny Dorling’s view that “Scotland is doing such interesting and different things” and his previous remarks that the Scottish Child Payment is the single policy intervention that has had the biggest impact on reducing child poverty in Europe in 40 years, and evidence from Tom Wernham of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, stating that the Scottish Child Payment “will have significantly increased the incomes of people who are well below the poverty line”; welcomes the further increase in the Scottish Child Payment to £26.70 per eligible child per week in the Scottish Government’s 2024-25 Budget; further welcomes what it considers is the positive impact that the SCP is having on families in Scotland, and notes the view that work is required on a cross-party and cross-Parliament basis to eradicate what it sees as the scourge of child poverty on our society.