The Executive shares with the UK government a long-term target to eradicate child poverty by 2020 and has achieved its 2005 target of a 25% reduction. The statistics on Scottish Households Below Average Income 2004/05 show that on an after housing costs basis:
行政机关与联合王国政府一样，也有一个到2020年消除儿童贫穷的长期目标，而且实现了到2005年把贫穷儿童减少25%的目标。