Publication - Impact assessment

Housing (Scotland) Bill: child rights and wellbeing impact assessment

Published: 30 August 2024
From: Minister for Housing
Directorate: Local Government and Housing Directorate
Topic: Housing
ISBN: 9781836016724

Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment (CRWIA) summary for the Housing (Scotland) Bill

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 A New Deal for Tenants - draft strategy: consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2 Housing to 2040 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3 Introduced | Scottish Parliament Website

4 Rented Sector Reform - Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5 Homelessness Prevention - Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

6 Mobile homes – Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment Screening gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

7 Scottish Government, Housing statistics: Stock by tenure. Figures are estimated stock as of March 2022. In the Financial Memorandum, the number of private rented households is rounded to 340,000 when used in costings.

8 Combined figure for single parent, small family and large family

9 Supporting documents - Scottish Surveys Core Questions 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

10 44% in social rented households and 34% in private rented households, compared to 8% in households buying with a mortgage and 14% in households who own outright were found to be in relative poverty (below 60% of UK median income after housing costs). Source: Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23

11 47% in social rented households and 40% in private rented households are, compared to 10% in households buying with a mortgage and 18% in households who own outright. The latest available figures across the period 2017 to 2020, on an after housing costs basis, and are sourced from Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland Tables

12 63% of social rented households and 40% of private rented households in Scotland are categorised as financially vulnerable, compared with 24% of households buying with a mortgage and 9% of households owning outright. Financial vulnerability is defined as households with savings which would cover less than one month of income at the poverty line. Data covers the 2018 to 2020 and is sourced from Scottish Government Statistical publication on Wealth in Scotland 2006-2020) Wealth in Scotland 2006-2020 (data.gov.scot)

14 Scottish Government analysis of Family Resources Survey Data (2020-23) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot).

15 Living in Scotland’s Private Rented Sector: A Bespoke Survey of Renters’ experiences – September 2022 p7

16 What do lower income tenants in Scotland’s private rented sector want to see from a new Rented Sector?

17 Living in Scotland’s private rented sector: a bespoke survey of renter’s experiences - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence

18 Living in Scotland’s Private Rented Sector: A Bespoke Survey of Renters’ experiences – September 2022

19 “I Can’t Give Up When I Have Them to Care for”: People’s Experiences of Pets and Their Mental Health (atriumclinic.co.uk) and (PDF) Childhood Attachment to Pets: Associations between Pet Attachment, Attitudes to Animals, Compassion, and Humane Behaviour (researchgate.net)

20 Living in Scotland’s private rented sector: a bespoke survey of renter’s experiences | Housing Evidence and Low income renters priorities for change Scotland synthesis report September 2022-1.pdf (housingevidence.ac.uk)

21 Eviction of children and families: the impact and the alternatives - Shelter Scotland and Understanding the True Cost of Evictions in Scotland, Shelter Scotland

22 Sharp, N. (2008). What’s yours is mine. The different forms of economic abuse and its impact on women and children experiencing domestic violence.

23 Scottish Women’s Aid. 2015. Change, Justice, Fairness: why should we have to move everywhere and everything because of him?

24 Feedback from the tenancy deposit schemes - Tenancy Deposit Scheme: review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

25 Homelessness in Scotland: 2022-23 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)