Publication - Impact assessment
The Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023: Fairer Scotland duty assessment summary
Assesses the impact of changes to Best Start Foods on socio-economic inequality. This duty came into force in Scotland in 2018 and is set out in Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010. It considers issues such as low income, low wealth and area deprivation.
Policy Aims – Summary
The aims of the policy changes being introduced are to:
- Support more low income families to access healthy food and milk;
- Further align eligibility and procedures for BSF with BSG and SCP. This will:
- make it easier for clients to understand the eligibility criteria;
- reduce the need for re-applications and review requests;
- make it easier to potentially automate payments in the future;
- improve access to BSF for young parents;
- make it easier to administer and promote the benefits; and
- address stakeholder concerns regarding the need for better alignment across the five family payments
- Make other technical changes to how we make payments. These will:
- simplify the uprating process; and
- make clear that we can pay BSF to individuals in another way where it is not appropriate to provide a prepaid card.
Contact
Email: ben.sutcliffe@gov.scot
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