Educational attainment in Scotland

Wednesday, September 25, 2002

Having the worst diets and the highest youth suicide rates in the UK does not stop Scotland's children from having the best educational attainment, with 78.6 per cent involved in either full-time school or further education. The findings are in a new report, The Well-being of Children in the UK, on a study carried out for Save the Children by researchers from the University of York. It found that 96 per cent of children in Whitfield South, Dundee, are living in poverty - the highest rate in the UK - Jwhile Kilmardinny in east Dunbartonshire has the lowest rate of child poverty in Scotland, at just 0.7 per cent.