Publication - Impact assessment

National Care Service Charter of Rights: equality impact assessment

Published: 25 May 2026
Directorate: Social Care and National Care Service Development
Topic: Equality and rights, Health and social care
ISBN: 9781807752156

Summary of the equality impact assessment (EqIA) undertaken to accompany the National Care Service Charter of Rights.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 People supported through social care services 2023/24 – Public Health Scotland].

2 Tackling digital exclusion

3 Tackling digital exclusion

4 Examining the social determinants of LGBT+ health and wellbeing

5 "Trauma, abandonment and isolation": Experiences of pregnancy and maternity services in Scotland during COVID-19 - Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland

6 Ethnic Health Inequalities in the UK’s maternity services and “I Just Gritted My Teeth to Get Through It All”: An Online Survey of Autistic People’s Experiences of Maternity Care in the United Kingdom | Autism in Adulthood

7 gv-draft-ncs-charter-may24.pdf

8 Self-directed Support and personal outcomes | EHRC

9 Tackling digital exclusion

10 Working with Gypsy and Traveller communities

11 Sikh Women Speak

12 Barriers to healthcare among Muslim women: A narrative review of the literature - ScienceDirect

13 Examining the social determinants of LGBT+ health and wellbeing

Contact

Email: nationalcareservice@gov.scot

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