Scottish Attainment Challenge 2022 to 2023 - 2025 to 2026: equality impact assessment

Methodology

A desk-based evaluation of evidence was conducted. This took into account a variety of statistical surveys, reports and other publications including:

• Pupil Census, 2019, Scottish Government (1)
• National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education - 2016 Evidence Report (2)
• Child Health 27-30 Month Review Statistics Scotland 2017/18, ISD Scotland (3)
• School level summary statistics 2019, Scottish Government (4)
• Additional analysis of poverty in Scotland 2015/16 (5)
• Prejudice-based bullying in Scottish schools: a research report, Equality and Human Rights Commission, March 2015 (6)
• Scottish Government Equality Outcomes: Gender evidence review, 2013 (7)
• ISD Scotland, Teenage Pregnancy - Year of conception ending 31 December 2014 (8)
• State of the Nation Report: Race and Racism in Scottish Education, 2013 (9)
• National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education - 2017 Evidence Report (10)
• National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education – 2018 Evidence Report (11)
• The Cost of Learning in Lockdown – 2020 Evidence Report (12)
• Exploring the UK’s digital divide – 2019 Evidence Report (13)

In addition, an internal Scottish Government workshop and a number of stakeholder discussions with representatives from relevant organisations including the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Enable, BEMIS, Engender, LGBT Youth Scotland, Stonewall Scotland, the Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations Scotland, helped to inform the preceding version of this EQIA. These inputs remain highly relevant to current version of the EQIA given the primary policy development since these have taken place is the introduction of the SEF.