Scottish Child Payment: Equality Impact Assessment
The Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) considers potential effects of the Scottish Child Payment and how it impacts on people with one or more protected characteristics.
Footnotes
1. Social Security (Scotland) Act Equality Impact Assessment
2. Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, Annex 3 and 4
3. Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan
4. For further detail of how the Scottish Child Payment can be expected to benefit these specific groups, see the Scottish Child Payment Fairer Scotland Duty
5. Our Charter
7. Scottish Government, Growing Up in Scotland: Health Inequalities in the Early Years
8. Analysis of Options for the Income Supplement report
9. Scottish Child Payment Position paper, June 2019
10. Poverty and Inequality in Scotland 2016-2019, Figure 3
11. Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, page 15
12. Universal Credit Scotland dashboard: August 2020
13. Scottish Fiscal Commission: Supplementary Costing – Scottish Child Payment
14. Scottish Government website - Scottish Child Payment
14. Social Security Experience Panels: Who is in the panels and their experiences so far
16. The Social Security Benefit Take-up Strategy
17. Benefit Take Up Forms and Guidance
18. Scottish Government: Funds Awarded to Maximise Benefit Take Up
19. For a full list of qualifying benefits see our Factsheet
20. Universal Credit Eligibility
21. Supplementary child poverty tables – table 5 (child poverty by age of mother)
22. Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality: Progress report on shifting the curve
23. The Scottish Government's Pregnancy and Parenthood in Young People Strategy
24. Children in poverty or material deprivation by age of children in household
25. Scottish Government, Growing Up in Scotland: Health Inequalities in the Early Years
26. Supplementary child poverty tables - table 8 (child poverty by whether there is a disabled family member)
27. ESSS Outline - Disability, Poverty and Transitional Support
28. UNICEF: COVID-19 response: Considerations for Children and Adults with Disabilities
29. The Social Security Benefit Take-up Strategy
30. UN: The COVID-19 outbreak and gender
32. Close the Gap, Statistics (2018)
33. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2016-2019, Figure 13
34. ONS (2019), Families by family type, regions of England and UK constituent countries
35. The Scottish Budget 2020-2021: Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget
36. DWP (2020), Stat Xplore
37. The Scottish Budget 2020-2021: Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget
38. Scottish Government, Review of the evidence on gender, income and poverty
39. Lundberg et al (1997) The Journal of Human Resources, Volume 32, No. 3, p. 463- 480;
Fisher (2014), British tax credit simplification, the intra-household distribution of income and family consumption;
40. Scottish Government Report Scottish Social Attitudes 2015: Attitudes to discrimination and positive action
41. Office for National Statistics: Sexual Identity UK, 2016
42. Early Learning and Childcare - Additional Tables 2018
43. Race Equality Framework for Scotland (2016)
44. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2016-19, Figure 16
45. Close the Gap, Still not visible
46. Supplementary Child Poverty Tables 2015-2018, Table 9
47. Intersecting inequalities: the impact of austerity on black and minority ethnic women in the UK a report by the Women's Budget Group and Runnymede Trust
48. The Social Security Benefit Take-up Strategy
49. Scottish Government (2015) Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland: A Comprehensive Analysis of the 2011 Census
50. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2016-19, Figure 17
Contact
Email: kai.stuart@gov.scot
There is a problem
Thanks for your feedback