Publication - Independent report

Best Start Grants and Scottish Child Payment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021 - draft: SCoSS scrutiny report

Published: 26 November 2021
Directorate: Social Security Directorate
Topic: Children and families, Equality and rights, Money and tax
ISBN: 9781802016666

Scottish Commission on Social Security (SCoSS) scrutiny report on the draft Best Start Grants and Scottish Child Payment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1. Letter from Minister Ben Macpherson

2. Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations

3. Winter Heating Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Amendment Regulations: scrutiny report on draft regulations

4. The Scottish Child Payment regulations 2020: scrutiny report on draft regulations

5. The Scottish Child Payment regulations 2020: supplementary scrutiny report on draft regulations

6. Scottish Child Payment Amendment Regulations 2021: scrutiny report on draft regulations

7. The Scottish Child Payment Regulations 2020: scrutiny report on draft regulations

8. Scottish Parliament Social Security Committee, Official Report from Thursday 30 January 2020

9. Regulation 12 The Scottish Child Payment Regulations 2020 No. 351; Regulation 10 The Early Years Assistance (Best Start Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 No. 370

10. The tribunal judgment that prompted the current draft Regulations concerned an appeal by a grandparent who had applied for SCP, rather than a dispute between parents.

11. Scottish Child payment draft regulations

12. Scottish Government response to draft regulations

13. Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) regulations 2020 – page 48 section 7 consistency and coherence.

14. C Fitzpatrick, G McKeever and M Simpson, 'Conditionality, discretion and TH Marshall's right to welfare' (2019) 41(4) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 445

15. Technical guidance on the Public Sector Equality Duty: Scotland | Equality and Human Rights Commission (equalityhumanrights.com)

16. Scottish Government, Analysis of options for the income supplement (Edinburgh: Scottish Government, 2019)

17. 'Processes that work' commitment 2: "recognise that your time is precious and handle your application and enquiries as quickly as we can"

18. 'A people's service' commitment 9: "pay you on time in the right amount".