Scottish Child Payment: Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment

The Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment (CRWIA) considers the Scottish Child Payment and how it impacts on children, in particular in relation to Part 1 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).


Footnotes

1.  For a full list of qualifying benefits see - https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-child-payment-factsheet/ 

2. Universal Credit Eligibility

3. section 96(2) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014

4. Scottish Government, Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan

5. age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion and belief; sex; and sexual orientation

6. Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan

7.  Children in poverty or material deprivation by age of children in household

8. Scottish Government, Growing Up in Scotland: Health Inequalities in the Early Years

11. Children in poverty or material deprivation by age of children in household

12. Our Charter

13. The Social Security Benefit Take-up Strategy 

14. Benefit Take Up Forms and Guidance 

15. Child Poverty Act 2017

16. Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan

17. Income Supplement: Analysis of Options

18. Universal Credit Scotland dashboard: August 2020 

19. Scottish Child Payment, Gov.scot 

20. Scottish Commission on Social Security, Scottish Child Payment regulations 2020: scrutiny report on the draft regulations

21. Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, Annex 3 and 4

22. Social Security (Scotland) Act Equality Impact Assessment

23. age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion and belief; sex; and sexual orientation

24. Poverty and Inequality in Scotland 2016-2019, Figure 3

25. Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, page 15

26. Cooper and Stewart (2017), Does money affect children's outcomes?, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion

27. Children's Parliament: What Kind of Scotland? 2017 

28. Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, Annex 4 - Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment

29. Our Charter

30. The Social Security Benefit Take-up Strategy 

31. Benefit Take Up Forms and Guidance 

32. Scottish Commission on Social Security, Scottish Child Payment regulations 2020: scrutiny report on the draft regulations

33. ESSS Outline -  Disability, Poverty and Transitional Support

34. Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

35. The Scottish Government’s Pregnancy and Parenthood in Young People Strategy 

36. Supplementary child poverty tables – table 5 (child poverty by age of mother)

37. Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality: Progress report on shifting the curve

38. The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 

39. Social Security Scotland Corporate Parenting Plan 2019-2021 

40. Lundberg et al (1997) The Journal of Human Resources, Volume 32, No. 3, p. 463- 480; Fisher (2014), British tax credit simplification, the intra-household distribution of income and family consumption

Contact

Email: kai.stuart@gov.scot

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