The Best Start grant is available to help with costs in pregnancy or starting to care for a baby and with extra costs for a child around nursery age and school age. Best Start foods replaces Healthy Start vouchers. Scottish child payment is available for low income families with a child aged under sixteen.
A test case is a legal challenge where the outcome will have significance not only for the person bringing it, but for many others too. In other words, the case has a significant wider public interest beyond those directly involved in it.