The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendment and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2022: equality impact assessment

The Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) considers potential effects of changes to Best Start Foods, Best Start Grants and Scottish Child Payment and how these impact on people with one or more protected characteristics.


Footnotes

1. Scottish Government (2022) Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026

2. Scottish Government (2019) Best Start Foods: Equality Impact Assessment

3. Scottish Government (2018) Best Start Grant: Equality Impact Assessment

4. Scottish Government (2020) Scottish Child Payment: Equality Impact Assessment

5. age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, race, marriage or civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation and religion and belief

6. Social Security Scotland (2019) Our Charter

7. Iriss (2019) Disability, Poverty and Transitional Support

8. Scottish Government (2021) Domestic abuse: statistics recorded by the Police in Scotland - 2020/21

9. Scottish Government (2018) Every child, every chance: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2018-2022

10. Scottish Government (2021) Scottish Government (2021) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20 - Figure 20

11. Scottish Government (2021) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20- Figure 23

12. Scottish Government (2021) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20 – Figure 24

13. Social Security Scotland (2019) Our Charter

14. Independent Care Review (2020) The Promise

15. Scottish Government (2020) Best Start Grant: interim evaluation

16. Scottish Government (2022) Best Start Foods: evaluation

17. Scottish Government (2022) Scottish Child Payment: interim evaluation

18. Social Security Scotland (2021) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to May 2021

19. Scottish Government (2021) Additional child poverty analysis 2021 - Table 4 (child poverty priority groups and targets - further analysis)

20. Scottish Government (2017) Shifting the curve: progress report

21. Scottish Government (2016) Pregnancy and Parenthood in Young People Strategy

22. Scottish Government (2010) Growing up in Scotland: health inequalities in the early years

23. Scottish Government (2022) Children's Social Work Statistics, Scotland 2020-21

24. Social Security Scotland (2021) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to May 2021

25. Scottish Government (2022) Additional child poverty analysis 2022 - Table 1 (target measures by priority group)

26. Iriss (2019) Disability, Poverty and Transitional Support

27. Scottish Government (2021) Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018: benefit take-up strategy - October 2021

28. Social Security Scotland (2021) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to May 2021

29. Scottish Government (2018) Every child, every chance: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2018-2022

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

31. Close the Gap (2022) Gender Pay Gap Statistics

32. Scottish Government (2021) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20- Figure 20

33. ONS (2022) Families by family type, regions of England and UK constituent countries – Table 12

34. HMRC (2022) Personal tax credits provisional statistics for December 2021 - Table 2.1

35. DWP (2022) Stat-Xplore: Universal Credit, Households on Universal Credit, Family Type

36. Scottish Government (2022) Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods: high level statistics to 28 February 2022

37. Scottish Government (2021) Domestic abuse: statistics recorded by the Police in Scotland - 2020/21

38. Social Security Scotland (2021) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to May 2021

39. Scottish Government (2016) Scottish Social Attitudes 2015: attitudes to discrimination and positive action

40. Social Security Scotland (2021) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to May 2021

41. Scottish Government (2020) Social Security Experience Panels: Who is in the Panels? - 2020 Update - Full report

42. Social Security Scotland (2021) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to May 2021

43. Scottish Government (2019) Scottish Surveys Core Questions 2019

44. Scottish Government (2021) Summary Statistics For Schools In Scotland 2021 - Additional early learning and childcare tables – Table 5

45. Scottish Government (2016) Race equality framework for Scotland 2016 to 2030

46. Scottish Government (2021) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20 - Figure 23

47. Close The Gap (2016) Still not visible

48. Scottish Government (2022) Additional child poverty analysis 2022 – Table 1 (target measures by priority group)

49. Women's Budget Group and Runnymede Trust (2017) Intersecting inequalities: the impact of austerity on black and minority ethnic women in the UK

50. Scottish Government (2022) Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026

51. Scottish Government (2021) Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018: benefit take-up strategy - October 2021

52. For a full list of qualifying benefits see - Scottish Child Payment - Who should apply

53. Scottish Government (2015) Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland - A Comprehensive Analysis of the 2011 Census

54. Scottish Government (2021) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20 – Figure 24

55. Department for Work and Pensions (2015) Child poverty transitions: exploring the routes into and out of poverty 2009 to 2012

56. Scottish Government (2022) Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026

57. Scottish Commission on Social Security (2022) Best Start Foods, Best Start Grants and Scottish Child Payment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022: scrutiny report

58. The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

59. Scottish Government (2022) Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026

Contact

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