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Scottish policies and strategies: social, economic and cultural context - ARCHIVED

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Health inequalities:

Current policies, strategies, and plans Key delivery programmes / organisations Origins and antecedents Supporting documents Statistics

Equally Well: Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities, 2008

Equally Well Implementation Plan, 2008

Achieving Our Potential: A Framework to Tackle Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland, 2008

Early Years Framework, 2009

Equally Well Review, 2010

2nd Equally Well review, 2014

Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities, 2013

Health Scotland: A Fairer Healthier Scotland, 2017-22

Scottish Parliament Public Audit Committee Enquiry Into Health Inequalities, 2012

Scotland Performs: National Outcomes - inequalities

Children and Young People Improvement Collaborative

The Black Report, 1980

Acheson Inequalities in Health Report, 1998

Towards a Healthier Scotland, 1999

Partnership for Care, 2003

Improving Health in Scotland: The Challenge, 2003

Delivering for Health, 2005

Audit Scotland: Health Inequalities in Scotland, 2012

Supporting Papers of Health Inequalities Task Force, 2012

Audit Scotland: Health inequalities in Scotland – Impact report, 2014

Long-Term Monitoring of Health Inequalities

ScotPHO: Health Inequalities

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation

Socioeconomic inequalities:

Current policies, strategies, and plans Key delivery programmes / organisations Origins and antecedents Supporting documents Statistics

Achieving Our Potential: A Framework to Tackle Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland, 2008

Skills for Scotland: Accelerating the Recovery and Increasing Sustainable Economic Growth, 2010

Report on the Future Delivery of Public Services by the Commission, 2011

Working for Growth: A Refresh of the Employability Framework for Scotland, 2012

Welfare Reform Act, 2012

Child Poverty Strategy for Scotland, 2014 Refresh

Scotland's Economic Strategy, 2015

The Government's Programme for Scotland 2017-18

Fair Work Convention - Fair Work Framework, 2016

Inclusive Growth, 2017

Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill, 2017

Fairer Scotland Action Plan, 2016

Employability in Scotland

Employability Delivery Team

The Poverty and Inequality Commission, 2017

Scotland Performs: National Outcomes - inequalities

Fairer Scotland Fund

Social Justice - A Scotland Where Everyone Matters, 1999

Closing the Opportunity Gap, 2004

Government Economic Strategy: A Discussion Paper on Tackling Poverty, Inequality and Deprivation in Scotland, 2008

Child Poverty Strategy for Scotland, 2011

Social Justice Indicators of Progress, 2003

Closing the Opportunity Gap Programme: Phase 1 Evaluation, 2008

Annual Report on the Child Poverty Strategy for Scotland, 2016

Impact of Welfare Reform in Scotland, 2015

Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Act 2012: Annual Report, 2016

Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality: Shifting the curve - a report for the First Minister, 2016

The life chances of young people in Scotland: an evidence review for the First Minister’s Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality, 2017

Income and Poverty Statistics

Labour Market Statistics

ScotPHO: Life Circumstances

Severe Poverty in Scotland, 2015

Literacy and Health Literacy:

Current policies, strategies, and plans Key delivery programmes / organisations Origins and antecedents Supporting documents Statistics

Adult Literacies in Scotland 2020: Strategic guidance, 2010

Making it Easier: A Health Literacy Action Plan for Scotland, 2017-2025

Literacy Action Plan, 2010 

NHS The Health Literacy Place

Scottish Government: Health Literacy

Adult Literacy and Numeracy in Scotland, 2001

Adult Literacy and Numeracy Strategy Report, 2007-08, 2008

Health Literacy: A Scoping Study – Final Report, 2009

Literacy Action Plan - Interim Progress Report, 2012

Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy