Carer's Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill: fairer Scotland duty assessment

Footnotes

1 CW_2020_Research_Report_WEB.pdf (carersuk.org)

2 Family Resources Survey: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

3 The Social Security Response to Covid-19 (azureedge.net)

4 Caring Behind Closed Doors: six months on - Carers UK

5 New Policy Institute (2016) Informal Carers, Poverty and Work

6 Scottish Government (2019) Scottish Health Survey 2018 Volume 1 – Main Report

7 Scottish Government (2019) Scottish Health Survey 2018 Volume 1 – Main Report

8 Summary statistics for Carer’s Allowance at May 2019, Social Security Scotland

9 Sources: CAS Business Case 2018; Close the Gap (2020) Working Paper 21: Gender Pay Gap Statistics; and Engender (2016) Securing women’s futures: using Scotland’s social security powers to close the gender equality gap

10 Sources: https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2020/04/care-poverty-and-coronavirus-across-britain/
https://www.carersuk.org/for-professionals/policy/policy-library/caring-behind-closed-doors-report