The Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023: equality impact assessment
This equality impact assessment (EQIA) considers potential effects of changes to Best Start Foods and how these impact on people with one or more protected characteristics.
Footnotes
1 Scottish Government (2019) Best Start Foods: Equality Impact Assessment
2 Scottish Government (2022) The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendment and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2022: Equality Impact Assessment
3 age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, race, marriage or civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation and religion and belief
4 Social Security Scotland (2019) Our Charter
5 Nourish Scotland (2016) Living more important than surviving
6 Children's Parliament (2017) What Kind of Scotland?
7 Social Security Scotland (2023): Social Security Scotland - Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods: high level statistics to 30 June 2023
8 Scottish Government (2022) Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026
9 Scottish Government (2021) Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018: benefit take-up strategy - October 2021
10 Scottish Government (2017) Analysis of Written Responses to the Consultation on Social Security in Scotland
11 Scottish Government (2022) Best Start Foods: evaluation
12 Internal Scottish Government Analysis (2023) More help for more families
13 Social Security Scotland (2023) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to March 2023
14 Scottish Government (2021) Additional child poverty analysis 2021 - Table 4 (child poverty priority groups and targets - further analysis)
15 Scottish Government (2022) Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026
16 Scottish Government (2017) Shifting the curve: progress report
17 Scottish Government (2016) Pregnancy and Parenthood in Young People Strategy
18 Scottish Government (2017) Analysis of Written Responses to the Consultation on Social Security in Scotland
19 Scottish Government (2017) Analysis of Written Responses to the Consultation on Social Security in Scotland
20 Scottish Government (2010) Growing up in Scotland: health inequalities in the early years
21 NHS Health Scotland (2018) Child Poverty in Scotland: health impact and health inequalities
22 Cooper & Stewart, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (2017) Does money affect children's outcomes? an update
23 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 4
24 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 8
25 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 8
26 Scottish Youth Parliament (2023) Young People's Right to Food
27 The Food Foundation (2023) Healthy Start needs urgent improvement to tackle food insecurity in the early years
28 Chronic Poverty Research Centre (2007) The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty
29 Scottish Government (2022) Best Start Foods: evaluation
30 Internal Scottish Government Analysis More help for more families
31 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 5b
32 Scottish Government (2022) Additional child poverty analysis 2022 – Table 1 (target measures by priority group)
33 Scottish Government (2022) Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026
34 Scottish Government (2022) Homelessness in Scotland: 2021/22
35 Social Security Scotland (2023) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to March 2023
36 Scottish Government (2023) Additional child poverty analysis 2023 - Table 1 (target measures by priority group)
37 Iriss (2019) Disability, Poverty and Transitional Support
38 Scottish Government (2021) Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018: benefit take-up strategy - October 2021
39 Social Security Scotland (2023) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to March 2023
40 ONS (2022) Families by family type, regions of England and UK constituent countries – Table 12
41 Social Security Scotland (2023) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to March 2023
42 Scottish Government (2018) Every child, every chance: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2018- 2022
43 Engender (2016) Securing Women’s Futures: Using Scotland’s new social security powers to close the gender equality gap
44 Office for National Statistics (2022) Dataset: Gender pay gap
45 Oxford Review of Economic Policy (2020) The gender pay gap in the UK: children and experience in work
46 Polachek (2020) Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap
47 Andrew et al (2021) The careers and time use of mothers and fathers
48 ONS (2021) Families and the labour market, UK
49 European Institute for Gender Equality (2016) Poverty, gender and lone parents in the EU
50 ONS (2021) Families and the labour market, UK
51 Scottish Government (2011) Improving maternal and infant nutrition: a framework for action
52 Kinship (2021) Kinship care: State of the Nation Survey 2021
53 Scottish Government (2022) Best Start Foods: evaluation
54 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 23
55 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 9
56 HMRC (2023) Personal tax credits provisional statistics for December 2022 - Table 2.1
57 DWP (2023) Stat-Xplore: Universal Credit, Households on Universal Credit, Family Type
58 Social Security Scotland (2023) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to March 2023
59 Butz, A.M. and Gaynor, T.S. (2022) Intersectionality and Social Welfare: Avoidance and Unequal Treatment among Transgender Women of Color - Butz - 2022 - Public Administration Review - Wiley Online Library, pp. 1-13
60 Equality and Human Rights Commission (2020) Attitudes to transgender people
61 Social Security Scotland (2023) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to March 2023
62 University of Stirling (2023) Welfare Access, Assets And Debts Of LGBT+ People In Great Britain
63 Scottish Government (2020) Social Security Experience Panels: Who is in the Panels? - 2020 Update - Full Report
64 Social Security Scotland (2023) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to March 2023
65 Scottish Government (2019) Scottish Surveys Core Questions 2019
66 Close The Gap (2016) Still not visible
67 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 – Figure 27
68 Scottish Government (2023) Additional child poverty analysis 2022- Table 1
69 Women’s Budget Group and Runnymede Trust (2017) Intersecting inequalities: the impact of austerity on black and minority ethnic women in the UK
70 Scottish Government (2022) Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026
71 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 9
72 Scottish Government (2020) Homelessness in Scotland: Equalities Breakdown 2019 to 2020
73 Scottish Government (2022) Homelessness in Scotland: 2021/22
74 Scottish Government (2021) Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018: benefit take-up strategy - October 2021
75 Scottish Government (2022) Best Start Foods: evaluation
76 Social Security Scotland (2023) Social Security Scotland client diversity and equalities analysis to March 2023
77 Maternity Action (2022) Cost of living on maternity leave survey
78 The Food Foundation (2023) Preconception, Pregnancy and Healthy Weight in Childhood
79 Dabelea, D., et al., (2000) Intrauterine Exposure To Diabetes Conveys Risks For Type 2 Diabetes And Obesity: A Study Of Discordant Sibships Diabetes 49(12), 2208–2211
80 Godfrey, K.M. et al., (2017) Influence of maternal obesity on the long-term health of offspring The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 5 1: 53–64
81 Thompson, J.M., et al., (2010) Maternal Dietary Patterns in Pregnancy and the Association with Small-for-gestational-age Infants Br J Nutr 103: 1665–73
82 Mennella, J. A., et al., (2001) Prenatal and postnatal flavor learning by human infants Pediatrics 107(6), E88
83 Internal Scottish Government Analysis More help for more families - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
84 Scottish Government (2011) Improving maternal and infant nutrition: a framework for action
85 Scottish Government (2017) Analysis of Written Responses to the Consultation on Social Security in Scotland
86 Scottish Government (2017) Analysis of Written Responses to the Consultation on Social Security in Scotland
87 Department for Work and Pensions (2015) Child poverty transitions: exploring the routes into and out of poverty 2009 to 2012
88 Scottish Government (2022) Additional child poverty analysis 2022 - Table 1 (target measures by priority group)
89 The Food Foundation (2023) Healthy Start needs urgent improvement to tackle food insecurity in the early years
90 The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infant Feeding and Inequalities (2018) Inquiry into the cost of infant formula in the United Kingdom
91 Feed (2022) Access to infant formula for babies living in food poverty in the UK
92 Scottish Commission on Social Security
93 Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018
94 Scottish Government (2019) Social Security Scotland: Our Charter
95 Scottish Government (2021) Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018: benefit take-up strategy - October 2021
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