Scottish Household Survey Annual Report 2007 Web Tables - Finance and Childcare
The 2005 Financial Inclusion Action Plan set out the (then) Scottish Executive's strategy for financial inclusion (defined as access for individuals to appropriate financial products and services, including having the skills, knowledge and understanding to make best use of those products and services). This was linked to the Closing the Opportunity Gap approach to tackling poverty and disadvantage. On 31 January 2008, the Scottish Government launched "Taking Forward the Government Economic Strategy: a discussion Paper on Tackling Poverty, Inequality and Deprivation in Scotland", to inform the development of a new anti-poverty framework. The UKGovernment is also committed to tackling financial exclusion, and some of the key announcements in its "Financial inclusion: an action plan for 2008-11", published in December 2007, include Scotland.
The Scottish Household Survey asks several key questions that are used to measure progress against financial inclusion targets. For example, it collects information on how households are coping financially, the number of households without a bank or building society account and the number of households without any savings or investments.
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