Since their launch, best start grant and best start foods have provided over £2.2 million in vital support to eligible Fife households with children.

The Scottish child payment will open for applications from low-income families with children under the age of 6 in November this year, and that significant new benefit will start to provide payments of £10 per week for each eligible child from the end of February 2021.

The new job start payment, which helps young people to take up offers of work, provides a higher level of support—£400—to those who have children.