Publication - Impact assessment

Carer Support Payment: child rights and wellbeing impact assessment

Published: 5 September 2023
From: Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice
Directorate: Social Security Directorate
Part of: Children and families, Communities and third sector, Equality and rights
ISBN: 9781835212943

This Child rights and wellbeing impact assessment (CRWIA) sets out to assess the impact of the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 on children and young people. It builds on, and should be read alongside the Equality Impact Assessment.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1. When the consultation launched, our working title for the new benefit was ‘Scottish Carer’s Assistance’. Since then, we have worked with carers, carer organisations and our Experience Panel members to choose and test a preferred name for the new benefit. We can confirm that the chosen name for the benefit replacing Carer’s Allowance in Scotland will be ‘Carer Support Payment’.

2. The aims for Carer Support Payment were developed on the basis of carer and stakeholder feedback, and published as a Scottish Carer’s Assistance discussion paper in March 2021. Further to feedback on these, final aims were set out in the formal consultation on the benefit which ran from February to May 2022.

3. Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014

4. Young Carer Grant

5. Scottish Carer's Assistance: consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

6. Multi Criteria Analysis (www.gov.scot)

7. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (2022) Financial Memorandum (paragraph 72)

8. Jackie Drake successfully argued that the exclusion of married women from Carer’s Allowance, where married men residing with their wives were not excluded, constituted a clear example of direct discrimination on the grounds of sex.

9. Summary official statistics for Carer’s Allowance Supplement to April eligibility date in 2023, published in August 2023

10. Young Carer Grant: high level statistics to 30 April 2023, published in August 2023

11. Most respondents to our 2016 consultation on social security, supported the goal we set for Scottish Carer's Assistance, that it would be 'not a payment for care [but] provide some financial support and recognition for those who choose to, or who have had to give up or limit their employment or study because of caring responsibilities'. https://www.gov.scot/publications/analysis-written-responses-consultation-social-security-scotland/

12. Carer’s Allowance is an ‘income-replacement’ benefit so carers may not be earning more than £132 per week (2022/23 rate) from employment, after tax, National Insurance and some expenses. More information on is available at: https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance/eligibility

13. Scottish Carer’s Assistance discussion paper

14. National Carers Strategy

15. After deductions

16. Carer’s Allowance Supplement will continue to be paid in the same way as now until we safely and securely transfer the awards of carers in Scotland receiving Carer’s Allowance from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to Social Security Scotland .Consequential amendments will provide necessary provisions for CAS to be paid to those getting CSP as well as CA until case transfer is complete

17. Scottish Government - National carers strategy (2022)

18. Young carers: who are they and why do they need support? | Action For Children

19. Stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk

20. Carers Census: results 2018 to 2019 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

21. Public Health Scotland: Insights in Social Care - Statistics for Scotland

22. Families receiving a positive payment of Universal Credit in Scotland in August 2022.

23. Number of households claiming Universal Credit

24. Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk) DWP Universal Credit data, accessed on StatXplore

25. 12. Poverty - Scotland's Wellbeing: national outcomes for disabled people - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

26. Social Security Experience Panels: Young Carer Grant Research (www.gov.scot)

27. See findings from DWP case transfer survey and Social Security Experience Panels – designing the benefits transfer process report

28. Carers Strategic Policy Statement: Draft for consultation (www.gov.scot)