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Publication - Impact assessment

Draft Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024: Draft Island Communities Impact Assessment

Published
7 August 2023
Directorate
Social Security Directorate
Part of
Communities and third sector, Equality and rights, Money and tax
ISBN
9781835211793

A draft Island Communities Impact Assessment (ICIA) considering the draft Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024 in relation to their impacts on people living in the Islands under Section 8 of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018.

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Footnotes

1 Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 (legislation.gov.uk)

2 Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (legislation.gov.uk)

3 Social Security Experience Panels: publications - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4 A Consultation on Improving Disability Assistance in Scotland - Scottish Government (consult.gov.scot)

5 Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk)

6 Social Security Scotland - Our Charter (socialsecurity.gov.scot)

7 Social Security Scotland Disability Benefits - Terminal Illness CMO guidance (socialsecurity.gov.scot)

8 Social Security - A Consultation on Disability Assistance in Scotland - Scottish Government response (www.gov.scot)

9 Social Security experience panels: decision making and reviewing an award - main report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

10 Social Security - A Consultation on Disability Assistance in Scotland - Scottish Government response (www.gov.scot)

11 Rural Scotland: key facts 2018 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

12 Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

13 Islands (Scotland) Bill | Scottish Parliament

14 Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

15 Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

16 Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

17 UK Poverty 2022: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK | JRF (www.jrf.org.uk)

18 Population Groups: Older People - Public Health Scotland (www.healthscotland.scot)

19 https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

20 Sutherland, F (2015) Remotely excluded: barriers facing Scotland’s rural consumers, CAS, Edinburgh, 36 pp

21 A Minimum Income Standard: For Remote rural Scotland; Loughborough University, UHI & Highlands and Islands Enterprise; 2013

22 A Minimum Income Standard for Remote Rural Scotland 2016 | Highlands and Islands Enterprise (www.hie.co.uk)

23 Disability, Long Term Conditions and Poverty - New Policy Institute (npi.org.uk)

24 Islands Strategic Group - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

25 Islands (Scotland) Bill | Scottish Parliament (digitalpublications.parliament.scot)

26 Inhabited islands analytical report | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

27 Poverty types: Working age without children - Poverty in Perspective: a typology of poverty in Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Contact

Email: Joseph.Scullion@gov.scot

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