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Publication - Impact assessment

Social Security Information-sharing (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024: equality impact assessment

Published
6 December 2023
Directorate
Social Security Directorate
Topic
Children and families, Equality and rights, Public sector
ISBN
9781835216989

This equality impact assessment (EQIA) considers the potential effects of the Social Security Information-sharing (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 on people with protected characteristics.

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Footnotes

1. Social Security Scotland - Our Charter

2. Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 (legislation.gov.uk)

3. Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007: Code of Practice - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4. Overview of the Consultation - Safeguarding data sharing: consultation report and summary of responses - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5. National Outcomes | National Performance Framework

6. Mid-2021 Population Estimates Scotland | National Records of Scotland (nrscotland.gov.uk)

7. Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to May 2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

8. Adult Disability Payment opens for applications nationwide - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

9. Social Security Scotland - Adult Disability Payment: high level statistics to 30 April 2023

10. Child Disability Payment: high level statistics to 31 March 2023 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

11. Financial Abuse Evidence Review (ageuk.org.uk)

12. Microsoft Word - controlling-money-controlling-lives (1).doc (citizensadvice.org.uk)

13. Supporting documents - Adult Support and Protection Scotland: April 2019 to March 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

14. The Scottish Health Survey 2021 - volume 1: main report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

15. Social Security Scotland - Adult Disability Payment: high level statistics to 30 April 2023

16. Child Disability Payment: high level statistics to 31 March 2023 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

17. Financial Abuse Evidence Review (ageuk.org.uk)

18. Supporting documents - Adult Support and Protection Scotland: April 2019 to March 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

19. The Scottish Health Survey 2021 - volume 1: main report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

20. Disability and crime, UK - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

21. Supporting documents - Adult Support and Protection Scotland: April 2019 to March 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

22. Social Security Scotland - Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods: high level statistics to 31 March 2023

23. Domestic abuse in pregnancy - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

24. Supporting documents - Scottish Government Equality Outcomes: Pregnancy and Maternity Evidence Review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

25. Supporting documents - Adult Support and Protection Scotland: April 2019 to March 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Contact

Email: Mark.McAdam@gov.scot

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