The Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023: business and regulatory impact assessment

This business and regulatory impact assessment (BRIA) considers the impact of changes to Best Start Foods on businesses, including the third sector.


Footnotes

1 Nourish Scotland (2016) Living More Important Than Surviving

2 Children's Parliament (2017) What Kind of Scotland?

3 Social Security Scotland (2023) Social Security Scotland - Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods: high level statistics to 30 June 2023

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

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

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

7 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 4

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

9 NHS Health Scotland (2018) Child Poverty in Scotland: health impact and health inequalities

10 Cooper & Stewart, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (2017) Does money affect children's outcomes? an update

11 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 8

12 Scottish Government (2023) Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22 - Figure 8

13 Scottish Government (2018) A Healthier Future - Scotland's Diet and Healthy Weight Delivery Plan

14 Scottish Government (2022) Best Start Foods: evaluation

15 Scottish Government National Performance Framework

16 Scottish Government (2019) Social Security Scotland: Our Charter

17 Scottish Government (2022) Scotland's National Strategy for Economic Transformation

18 Internal Scottish Government Analysis (2023) More help for more families

19 Scottish Government (2017) Analysis of Written Responses to the Consultation on Social Security in Scotland

20 The University of York (2015) Getting a healthy start: The effectiveness of targeted benefits for improving dietary choices

21 Scottish Fiscal Commission (2023) Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts – May 2023

22 Internal Scottish Government Analysis (2023) More help for more families

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

24 The Public Contracts (Scotland) 2015 Regulations

25 The Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014

26 Scottish Government (2019) Social Security Scotland: Our Charter

27 Scottish Commission on Social Security

28 The Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Regulations 2019

29 Social Security Act 1988

30 Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

31 Scottish Government (2019) Social Security Scotland: Our Charter

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

33 Scottish Fiscal Commission (May 2023) Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts – May 2023

Contact

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