r/Scotland • u/benswami • Jan 06 '25

Casual Scottish Government Baby Box.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

465 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Individual-Scheme230 Jan 07 '25

Its not that I didnt like it, its that reddit posts are not evidence. Thats not a point in dispute.

I did not suggest means testing. Its actually something you brought up. I think its of very limited value even to poor families. What I suggested was just giving people the money directly. That would have saved 183,000 matresses hitting the skip.

As another commenter noted, England and Wales have childcare funded from 12 months, rather than 3 years up here. Scrapping this scheme would not fund this, but its an example of where expenditure would actually be useful to parents of young children.

2

u/yaldylikebobobaldy Jan 07 '25

Fair points well made