• Membership changes

• Introduction
  • Remit of inquiry
  • Call for views
  • Lived experience engagement
  • Visit to Financially Included
  • Oral evidence sessions

• Part 1: Equally Safe and the role of government
  • Policy background
  • Practical action and awareness of the strategy
  • Protected characteristics
  • Role of government
  • Equally Safe and the role of government: conclusions and recommendations

• Part 2: Advice and information
  • Information needed
  • Availability of information
  • Barriers to support
  • Funding
  • Training and awareness raising
    • Agencies delivering benefits
      • Social Security Scotland
      • Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
  • Scottish Government initiatives and funding
  • Advice and information: conclusions and recommendations

• Part 3: Social security systems
  • Barrier to leaving
  • Evidence required
  • Agencies delivering benefits
    • Support available to victim/survivors
    • Prevention of abuse
  • Universal Credit
    • Split payments
  • Scottish benefits
    • Scottish Welfare Fund
    • Fund to Leave
  • Impact of social security entitlement on housing options
  • Child Maintenance Service
    • Issues encountered by service users
    • Recommended improvements
    • CMS processes, recourse for service users and safeguarding
  • Social security systems: conclusions and recommendations

• Part 4: No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)
  • Restriction of public funds
  • NRPF and housing
  • Discretionary powers and funds
  • Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession
  • Fair Way Scotland report on Ending Destitution by Design
  • No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF): conclusions and recommendations

• Part 5: Public bodies and debt
  • Collection of public debt
  • Local authority approach to debt collection
  • Best practice
  • Impact of public debt on housing options
  • Council tax and the Housing (Scotland) Bill
  • Other types of public debt and expenses
  • Public bodies and debt: conclusions and recommendations

• Part 6: Legal aid
  • Issues across the legal aid system and proposed reform
  • Eligibility
    • Means-testing arrangements for Advice and Assistance versus Civil Legal Aid
    • Automatic entitlement to Civil Legal Aid
    • Calculation of assets
    • Awareness raising
    • Proposal to introduce standardised personal allowances
    • Civil protection orders and Part 1 of the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021
  • Availability and accessibility of legal services
    • Legal aid fees
    • Edinburgh Women's Aid Legal Services Project
  • Legal practice, funding arrangements and inaccuracy of information
    • 'Clawback' provisions
  • Using the system to perpetuate abuse
  • Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee inquiry
  • Legal aid: conclusions and recommendations

• Part 7: Housing and homelessness
  • Stage 1 of the Housing (Scotland) Bill
    • Next steps
  • Homelessness prevention and housing options
  • Emergency accommodation
  • Considerations for older and/or disabled victim/survivors
  • Rechargeable repairs
  • Staying in the home
  • Housing and homelessness: conclusions and recommendations

• Part 8: Remote and rural areas
  • Equally Safe
  • Social security systems
  • Public debt
  • Legal aid
  • Funding arrangements
  • Remote and rural areas: conclusions and recommendations

• Part 9: Same-sex relationships
  • Same-sex relationships: conclusions and recommendations

• Part 10: Matters related to policing
  • Issues reported by the Survivor Reference Group
  • Correspondence with Police Scotland
  • Matters related to policing: conclusions and recommendations

• Annexe A: The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018

• Annexe B: written and oral evidence

• Annexe C: extracts of minutes of meetings