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PART 21Specific provision for children’s hearings arranged under the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Implementation of Secure Accommodation Authorisation) (Scotland) Regulations 2013

Provision of information for review of secure accommodation authorisation

94.—(1) This rule applies where a children’s hearing is to be arranged by virtue of regulation 9 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Implementation of Secure Accommodation Authorisation) (Scotland) Regulations 2013(1) (“the 2013 Regulations”).

(2) As soon as practicable before the beginning of the children’s hearing, the Reporter must notify the persons mentioned in paragraph (3) of the date, time and place of the hearing.

(3) Those persons are-

(a)the child;

(b)each relevant person;

(c)the chief social work officer who made the decision under regulation 4 or 7 of the 2013 Regulations;

(d)the head of unit who made the decision under regulation 6 of the 2013 Regulations;

(e)any appointed safeguarder;

(f)any individual other than a relevant person who appears to the Reporter to have or recently have had a significant involvement in the upbringing of the child;

(g)the three members of the children’s hearing; and

(h)the National Convener.

(4) The Reporter must, when issuing the notice under paragraph (2), provide those persons mentioned in paragraph (3)(a) to (g) with a copy of—

(a)all decisions and reasons for those decisions made by all pre-hearing panels and children’s hearings arranged in relation to the child;

(b)the decision of the chief social work officer made under regulation 5 of the 2013 Regulations; and

(c)the decision of the head of unit made under regulation 6 of the 2013 Regulations.

(1)

S.S.I. 2013/xxx.