Publication - Impact assessment

Care Home Services (Visits to and by Care Home Residents) (Scotland) Regulations 2026: equality impact assessment

Published: 21 January 2026
From: Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing
Directorate: Social Care and National Care Service Development
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781806436132

An equality impact assessment undertaken to consider and assess the impacts of the Care Home Services (Visits to and by Care Home Residents) (Scotland) Regulations 2026.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 The Care Home Census for Adults in Scotland 2025

2 Scotland’s Carers Update Release March 2025

3 Carers Trust: Summary of the voices and experiences of young carers and young adult carers from across Scotland, March 2023

4 Carers Census, Scotland, 2023-24

5 The Care Home Census for Adults in Scotland 2025

6 Who lives in Scotland’s care homes? Descriptive analysis using routinely collected social care data 2012-2016, Original research paper

7 The Care Home Census for Adults in Scotland 2025

Contact

Email: myhealthmycaremyhome@gov.scot

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