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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