Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2020: scrutiny report
The Scottish Commission on Social Security's scrutiny report on the draft Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2020 with recommendations for the Scottish Government.
Contents
- Document Cover
- Introduction
- Summary of recommendations and observations
- The bigger picture: rights and principles
- Policy changes from disability living allowance
- Areas for clarification or review in regulations
- Interface with UK system
- Processes and time limits
- Consistency and coherence
- Concluding remarks
- Annex A: Changes to draft regulations
- Annex B: Timeline of scrutiny
Annex A: Changes to draft regulations
In referring the further set of draft Disability Assistance for Children and Young People regulations to SCoSS on 7 February 2020, the Cabinet Secretary noted that various amendments had been made to the earlier draft regulations to take account of early views provided by SCoSS members. These included the following:
- the interpretation and definition of a number of phrases to ensure that the existing case law definition of these terms is reflected in the regulations;
- in relation to reporting of a change of circumstances, changing the threshold at which a new determination would be made through amendments to the phrasing of regulation 31(1)(a)(i); and
- provision to ensure that where a redetermination or an appeal increases the level of assistance a client should have received for a period, the back payment relating to that entitlement is paid net of any Short-Term Assistance they have already received.