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ScotAccount: equality impact assessment

Equality impact assessment for ScotAccount, outlining its potential impacts on different user groups and the measures taken to ensure fair, accessible, and trusted access to public services.


Footnotes

1 A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world - gov.scot

2 Identity Management and Privacy Principles V2.0 - gov.scot

3 The 14 criteria of the Digital Scotland Service Standard - Service Manual

4 Scotland’s Public Service Reform Strategy: Delivering for Scotland - gov.scot

5 Equality Act 2010 - age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation and religion or belief.

6 5 Conclusions - Towards a Scottish Minimum Digital Living Standard: Phase 2 - gov.scot

7 Data insights - Digital Connectivity

8 Project Gigabit - GOV.UK

9 How to prove and verify someone’s identity - GOV.UK

10 A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world - gov.scot

11 No One Left Behind - A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world - gov.scot

12 Scotland’s Public Service Reform Strategy: Delivering for Scotland - gov.scot

13 Tackling digital exclusion | Audit Scotland

14 Scotland’s Census 2022 - UV206 - Passports held - All of Scotland (S) - UK Data Service CKAN

15 Number of UK driving licence holders hits record high and surpasses major milestone for the very first time | This is Money

16 Young Scot Corporate - Young Scot National Entitlement Card

17 Ibid

18 Digital Lives of Care Experienced Children (scra.gov.uk)

19 CivTech Challenge 9.7 — Increase access to public services via existing relationships — CivTech

20 The Lloyds Consumer Index (2024)

21 Scottish Household Survey 2022: Key Findings - gov.scot

22 Scotland’s Census 2022 - Demography and migration | Scotland’s Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

23 Number of UK driving licence holders hits record high and surpasses major milestone for the very first time | This is Money

24 Share of smartphone users in the United Kingdom (UK) 2012-2024, by age

25 Not Without Me 2

26 Section Seven - Internet - Scottish household survey 2019: key findings - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

27 Lapsed Users Report, March 2020

28 Ibid.

29 Identity Management and Privacy Principles

30 Using authenticators to protect an online service - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

31 ScotAccount Privacy Notice

32 ScotAccount Terms of Use

33 Scottish Public Sector Cyber Resilience Framework

34 How to prove and verify someone’s identity - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

35 Scotland’s Wellbeing: national outcomes for disabled people - gov.scot

36 Supercharged: A Human Catastrophe • Glasgow Disability Alliance

37 WebAim Million 2024

38 Ofcom, Exploring Internet Adoption and Digital Disadvantage

39 ONS statistics

40 Scotland’s Wellbeing: national outcomes for disabled people - gov.scot

41 Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Apps)(No 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018

42 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1

43 Digital Scotland Service Standard - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

44 Scotland’s Wellbeing: national outcomes for disabled people - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

45 Digital Participation Report

46 Blog: Digital exclusion | Audit Scotland (audit-scotland.gov.uk)

47 Scotland’s Wellbeing: national outcomes for disabled people - gov.scot

48 Languages | Scotland’s Census

49 Social Security Experience Panels - ethnic minorities: report - gov.scot

50 UK Government Participation Survey 2024-25

51 REDUCING-HEALTH-INEQUALITIES.pdf

52 Driving licences and access to vehicles - GOV.UK Ethnicity facts and figures (ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk)

53 Why Racial Bias is Prevalent in Facial Recognition Technology - Harvard Journal of Law & Technology

54 Digital-Inclusion-in-Gypsy-and-Traveller-communities-FINAL-1-2.pdf

55 Gypsy, Roma, Traveller Youth: mitigating exclusions using the digital? - Nuffield Foundation

56 Digital-Inclusion-in-Gypsy-and-Traveller-communities-FINAL-1-2.pdf

57 Digital-Inclusion-in-Gypsy-and-Traveller-communities-FINAL-1-2.pdf

58 LGBTQ+ perspectives on safety and inclusion in public space

59 UK Government Participation Survey 2024-25

60 Needing ID could stop LGBTQ+ people voting | Stonewall

61 Ibid.

62 Frontiers | The impact of digital healthcare on vulnerable pregnant women: A review of the use of the MyCare app in the maternity department at a central London tertiary unit

63 Generation Equal: Disabilities

64 LGBTQ+ perspectives on safety and inclusion in public spaces

65 Needing ID could stop LGBTQ+ people voting | Stonewall

66 Addressing Problems People Face in Remote and Rural Scotland

67 Digital inclusion, exclusion, and participation | Iriss

Contact

Email: Yvonne.Longwill@gov.scot

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