Compulsory Purchase Reform in Scotland

The public sector equality duty requires the Scottish Government to have due regard to the need to:

• eliminate discrimination, victimisation, harassment or other unlawful conduct that is prohibited under the Equality Act 2010
• advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not, and 
• foster good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and those who do not 

The protected characteristics which the duty relates to are: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief and sex & sexual orientation.

A Children's Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment is an assessment process, tool and report through which the potential impacts of any proposed decision, including the development of policies, projects, programmes or services, on children’s rights and wellbeing are considered. In carrying out these assessments, CRWIAs use:

• the Articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• the two Optional Protocols of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which the UK has ratified (Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict | OHCHR)
• the child wellbeing indicators under the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014

An Island Communities Impact Assessment considers the impacts of new policies, strategies or services that are likely to have an effect on an island community which is significantly different from the effect on other communities. ICIA are provided for under the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018.

The Fairer Scotland Duty requires Scottish Ministers and named public bodies to consider how they can reduce inequalities of outcome caused by socio-economic disadvantage when making strategic decisions.