Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026
Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026 (2026 asp 16)
- Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026 (2026 asp 16)
- Part 1 Children’s care system
- Chapter 1 Support etc. for persons in or with experience of children’s care system
- Aftercare
- 1 Aftercare
- 2 Assessment of needs
- 3 Types of assistance
- 4 Other duties
- 5 Financial assistance towards expenses of education or training etc.
- 6 Co-operation between authorities
- 7 Consequential modifications of enactments
- Advocacy services for care-experienced persons
- 8 Advocacy services for care-experienced persons
- 9 Independence of care experience advocacy services
- Duties in relation to care experience
- 10 Duties of public authorities etc. in relation to care experience
- 11 Regulations under section 10: further provision
- Review of permanence
- 12 Review of permanence
- Interpretation
- 13 Interpretation
- Chapter 2 Support etc. for persons in or with experience of children’s care system: modification of enactments
- Family group decision-making
- 14 Right to request family group decision-making services
- 15 Promotion of family group decision-making services
- 16 Guidance on family group decision-making services
- Kinship care assistance
- 17 Kinship care needs assessment
- 18 Guidance in relation to kinship care assistance functions
- 19 Kinship care assistance: power to require information-sharing by local authority
- Provision of accommodation
- 20 Duty to provide accommodation for children in need
- 21 Provision of accommodation for care-experienced persons
- Continuing care
- 22 Continuing care: persons eligible and accommodation to be provided
- 23 Power to continue provision of continuing care up to person’s 26th birthday
- 24 Return to continuing care
- Corporate parenting
- 25 Corporate parenting: application to persons looked after before age 16 and planning
- 26 Guidance on corporate parenting
- Chapter 3 Provision of children’s care services
- Requirements on certain care providers
- 27 Children’s residential care services: profit limitation
- 28 Fostering services to be charities
- 29 Services taking cross-border placements
- Register of foster carers
- 30 Register of foster carers
- 31 Register of foster carers: further provision
- 32 Disclosure of information
- 33 Establishment and maintenance of register by person other than Scottish Ministers
- 34 Pilot scheme
- 35 Register of foster carers: interpretation
- Allowances and other payments
- 36 Allowances and other payments
- 37 Uprating of allowances
- Guidance on use of restraint and seclusion in relevant care services
- 38 Guidance on use of restraint and seclusion in relevant care services
- Report on deaths of care-experienced persons
- 39 Report on deaths of care-experienced persons
- Chapter 4 Support for adoption
- 40 Peer support services
- Chapter 5 Children’s hearings
- Composition etc. of Children’s Panel, children’s hearings and pre-hearing panels
- 41 Single member children’s hearings and pre-hearing panels
- 42 Remuneration of Children’s Panel members
- Child’s attendance at children’s hearings and hearings before sheriff
- 43 Child’s attendance at children’s hearings and hearings before sheriff
- Grounds hearings
- 44 Role of Principal Reporter and grounds hearing
- Relevant persons
- 45 Powers to exclude persons from children’s hearing
- 46 Relevant person’s right to require review of compulsory supervision order
- 47 Removal of relevant person status
- Timescales
- 48 Timescale for determination of application to sheriff
- 49 Reports on timescales in children’s hearing system
- Other changes
- 50 Tests for referral to Principal Reporter and making of compulsory supervision order or interim compulsory supervision order
- 51 Information about referral, availability of children’s advocacy services etc.
- 52 Children’s advocacy services: non-instructed advocacy
- 53 Children’s advocacy services: notification of hearings
- 54 Period for which interim compulsory supervision order or interim variation of compulsory supervision order has effect
- 55 Making of further interim compulsory supervision orders
- 56 Principal Reporter’s power to initiate review of compulsory supervision order
- 57 Family group decision-making: information to be provided to Principal Reporter
- Children’s legal aid
- 58 Children’s legal aid
- Chapter 6 Place of safety for children who have been arrested
- 59 Power to require that arrested children be taken to a place other than a police station, etc.
- Part 2 Children’s services planning
- 60 Lead children’s services planning bodies
- 61 Aims of children’s services planning
- 62 Children’s services plans: process and review
- 63 Reporting on children’s services plans
- Part 3 Reports and reviews
- 64 Report on family group decision-making services
- 65 Review of the Act
- 66 Report on fulfilment of the Promise
- Part 4 Final provisions
- 67 Ancillary provision
- 68 Regulation-making powers
- 69 Meaning of “child”
- 70 Commencement
- 71 Short title
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