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Publication - Impact assessment

Fairer Scotland Duty Impact Assessment

Published
17 Mar 2026

Footnotes

  1. Quarterly Data | Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
  2. Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2024 Workforce Data | Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
  3. Scottish Social Services Council. (2025) Post types of LA SW services (non-registered services), 2024
  4. As of the 19 December 2025, with data shared by the SSSC.
  5. This is data obtained via a data sharing arrangement with HESA.
  6. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. (2023) Poverty in Scotland 2023.
  7. The Poverty Alliance. (2024). Briefing: International Women's Day 2024 - The Poverty Alliance
  8. Engender. (2023) The largest poverty indicator that no one's talking about | Engender blog | Engender
  9. Higher Education Statistics Agency. (2025) Enrolments on Taught Social Work Courses. Data not publicly available.
  10. HESA define domicile as: This field holds the country code of the student's permanent home address prior to entry to the course. It is not necessarily the correspondence address of the student.
  11. National Union of Students Scotland. (2023) Fighting for Students: The Cost of Survival. 
  12. Although definitions vary by funding provider, SAAS circumscribes that an estranged student is one who is not in contact with their parent/legal guardian due to a ‘permanent breakdown’ in the relationship. If the student is aged under 25 years old, their finances of their parent/legal guardian will not be considered. Importantly, this does not apply to those who have experience of care within Scotland.
  13. ScotCen. (2022) Estranged students in Further (FE) and Higher Education (HE) - experiences: literature review - gov.scot
  14. SASW. (2024) Findings from the Student Placement Experience Survey. Edinburgh: SASW. 
  15. See SAAS. (2022). SAAS Review of Disability Related Student Support Summary Report.
  16. Advance HE. (2023) Equality in higher education: statistical reports 2023.
  17. ScotCen. (2022) Estranged students in Further (FE) and Higher Education (HE) - experiences: literature review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
  18. Setting the Bar: towards an indicative maximum caseload for Scotland’s public sector social workers - Social Work Scotland
  19. Children's Social Work Statistics: Secure Care 2023-24 - gov.scot
  20. Children’s Social Work Statistics: Child Protection 2023-24 - gov.scot
  21. Children’s Social Work Statistics: Looked After Children 2023/24 - gov.scot and Children’s Social Work Statistics: Child Protection 2023-24 - gov.scot
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