Mentions:
1: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) policy manager, Equality and Human Rights Commission; Nick Hobbs, head of advice and investigations, Children - Speech Link
2: None on to the disability commissioner. - Speech Link
3: None issues, but I think it is particularly acute for disabled children and young people. - Speech Link
4: Gallacher, Meghan (Con - Central Scotland) In its submission, the Glasgow Disability Alliance—one of the largest disability organisations in Europe - Speech Link
5: None I will say what you would expect me to say, which is children and young people. - Speech Link

Correspondence May. 31 2024

Found: to widen the eligibility criteria - for example, to include those in receipt of carers benefits, children

Mentions:
1: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) child payment, which—as statistics that were published this week show—was benefiting more than 329,000 children - Speech Link
2: Mackay, Gillian (Green - Central Scotland) Given that around a quarter of children in Falkirk, in my Central Scotland region, are living in poverty - Speech Link
3: Choudhury, Foysol (Lab - Lothian) One Parent Families Scotland has found that“39% of children in single parent families live in poverty - Speech Link
4: Somerville, Shirley-Anne (SNP - Dunfermline) payment and adult disability payment. - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: None We all want more than that for children in Scotland. - Speech Link
2: None Right now, eligibility is for children up to 16. - Speech Link
3: Balfour, Jeremy (Con - Lothian) , even though their children obviously benefit from heating and food. - Speech Link
4: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) they have to be assessed, and there is the question of where we draw the line with regard to level of disability - Speech Link
5: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) , rural children, teenagers, babies, single parents and minority ethnic people. - Speech Link

Found: Disability Commissioner (Scotland) Bill