National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992 - Child Migrant Trust amendments: equality impact assessment

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This amendment may benefit older age group categories more than younger age group categories as the majority of victims and survivors are likely to be older people. For many applicants it will vindicate their lived experience of abuse, which may have previously not been believed.

However, individuals of all age groups will be able to apply to the Child Migrant Trust, as it is anticipated that the beneficiaries of any former child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018 and has since passed away will be able to apply.

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The amendment proposed will ensure that people will retain the full value of any payment made via the Child Migrant Trust if subject to charging for residential care and support. This will ensure equality of opportunity with those receiving payments who plan to live in residential care.

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Although, it is likely to benefit older people more, individuals of all age groups are able to apply to the Child Migrant Trust. It is anticipated that the beneficiaries of child migrants will be able to apply.

Younger family members may feel a stronger connection to their older loved ones who experienced the abuse, and vindication of their loved ones' lived experience of abuse.

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This amendment may benefit disabled people more than non-disabled people as it is more likely that a person using a care home has an impairment or long term health condition. For many applicants it will vindicate their lived experience of abuse, which may have made them disabled, and which may have previously not been believed.

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The amendment proposed will ensure that people will retain the full value of any payment made via the Child Migrant Trust if subject to charging for residential care and support. This will ensure equality of opportunity with those receiving payments who plan to live in residential care.

As families with a disabled person are more likely to experience poverty, ensuring that the financial payments to a disabled survivor, or a disabled child migrant's family is disregarded will enable them to retain more of their income. This may be more pertinent if a person is disabled due to the abuse, and as a result, has been financially disadvantaged in life.

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Both disabled and non-disabled people will be able to apply to the Child Migrant Trust. Beneficiaries of child migrants will be able to apply. This disregard may have a positive effect on raising awareness of the experiences of people affected by abuse as child migrants.

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This amendment may benefit men more than women as most child migrants were boys. It is likely that more men than women will apply to the Child Migrant Trust.

For women, the shame and disadvantage of any unplanned or unwanted pregnancies as girls, due to being in the receiving institutions, will vindicate their lived experience of abuse and lack of safeguarding for them.

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It is anticipated that the number of men likely to apply is significantly higher than the number of women. The abuse of boys in institutions is less well discussed in public discourse, and therefore, it may enable men to gain a wider understanding of their abusive childhood.

For women financially and socially disadvantaged by unplanned or unwanted pregnancies as girls, the ability to provide a better financial future for them and their loved ones will be welcomed.

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Individuals of both sexes are able to apply to the Child Migrant Trust.

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For women, the shame and disadvantage of any unplanned or unwanted pregnancies as girls, due to being in the receiving institutions, will vindicate their lived experience of abuse and lack of safeguarding for them

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For women financially and socially disadvantaged by unplanned or unwanted pregnancies as girls, the ability to provide a better financial future for them and their loved ones will be welcomed.

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The recognition that their unplanned or unwanted pregnancies as girls, and the life that they had to endure after leaving the institutions, while pregnant, will heal emotional and financial wounds.

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The evidence is not available to make any analysis.

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The evidence is not available to make any analysis.

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The evidence is not available to make any analysis.

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The evidence is not available to make any analysis.

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The evidence is not available to make any analysis.

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The evidence is not available to make any analysis.

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This policy is likely to benefit individuals of white ethnicity more than other ethnic groups. All the policies surrounding the child migration schemes were based on race.

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There is no indication that the equality of opportunity for the migrant children was either positive or negative as the predominantly white children moved to countries that welcomed white children.

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Individuals of all racial groups will be able to apply to the Child Migrant Trust, including the beneficiaries.

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The majority of child migrants were selected based on the priorities of the Christian countries taking part and Christian religious organisations to populate the commonwealth countries with children raised in the Christian faith. The majority of the child migrants are therefore more likely to identify as Christian, or had a Christian upbringing.

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There is no indication that the equality of opportunity for the child migrants of being Christian in predominantly Christian countries will have advanced their equality of opportunity.

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Financial payments awarded by the Child Migrant Trust may foster a shared sense of justice for child migrants, and their families, sharing different religious beliefs.

Individuals of all religious or belief based groups will be able to apply to the Child Migrant Trust.

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This Protected Characteristic is not relevant to this assessment.