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
6 5 Conclusions - Towards a Scottish Minimum Digital Living Standard: Phase 2 - gov.scot
7 Data insights - Digital Connectivity
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
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)
24 Share of smartphone users in the United Kingdom (UK) 2012-2024, by age
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)
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
38 Ofcom, Exploring Internet Adoption and Digital Disadvantage
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
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.
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
Contact
Email: Yvonne.Longwill@gov.scot