GUS

The impact of disability on the lives of young children: analysis of data from the Growing Up in Scotland study

Research project commissioned by Scottish Government Children and Families Analysis with the objective of undertaking an in-depth analysis of data from the Growing Up in Scotland study (GUS) to examine the circumstances and outcomes of children living with a disability in Scotland.

The overall aim of this analysis was to explore the impact of disability on the child, their parents and the wider family unit.

Growing up in Scotland: birth cohort 2 - results from the first year

Growing Up in Scotland is a large-scale longitudinal research project aimed at tracking the lives of several cohorts of Scottish children from the early years, through childhood and beyond.

This report provides a detailed insight into the first set of data collected from the study's second birth cohort - representative of all children born in Scotland between 1st March 2010 and 28th February 2011 - around the time they were aged 10 months old.