Social Security Experience Panels: legacy report

Footnotes

1 For more information on the Scottish approach to participation in government, see the participation handbook.

2 Initial SCP payments for under-6s were made in February 2021.

3 SCoSS was established under the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (provisions 21-22). One of its functions is to report to Scottish Ministers on the extent to which the commitments in the Charter are being fulfilled, and to make recommendations for improvements if necessary. For more information see: Home - Scottish Commission on Social Security (socialsecuritycommission.scot).

4 Links to published frameworks can be found on the Social Security Scotland website: Social Security Scotland - Our Charter

5 National Assembly for Wales (2019). ‘Benefits in Wales: Options for better delivery', p.21. The full report is available online here.

6 Strokosch, K., and Osborne, S.P. (2020). Co-experience, co-production and co-governance: an ecosystem approach to the analysis of value creation, Policy & Politics, vol 48, no 3, 425–442, DOI: 10.1332/030557320X15857337955214

7 Simpson, M., McKeever, G., & Gray, A. (2019). From principles to practice: social security in the Scottish laboratory of democracy. Journal of Social Security Law, 26(1), 13-31

8 SAMH (2021). ’SAMH’s View: Scottish Social Security’. Available online: Views document (samh.org.uk)

9 Mind Cymru (2018). ‘Inquiry into ‘Benefits in Wales: options for better delivery’: Response from Mind Cymru’. Available online here

10 European Social Policies Network (2018): ‘Scotland moves away from the UK in social security policy’. Available online here.