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

6.  Family Resources Survey - Children in poverty or material deprivation by age of children in household

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

31.   Engender (2016) Securing Women's Futures: Using Scotland's new social security powers to close the gender equality gap 

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

51.  Child Poverty Transitions (DWP) 

Contact

Email: kai.stuart@gov.scot

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