The Arrangements to Look After Children (Scotland) Regulations 1996

Considerations to which a local authority shall have regard in making a care plan for a child to be, or being, looked after by them

4.—(1) This regulation applies where a local authority are making a care plan for a child to be, or being, looked after by them.

(2) Where this regulation applies, the local authority in making a care plan shall have regard to–

(a) the nature of the service to be provided in the immediate and longer-term with particular regard to any information referred to in Schedule 1;

(b) alternative courses of action;

(c) whether the local authority should seek a change in the child’s legal status;

(d) the arrangements which need to be made for the time when the child would or will no longer be looked after by the local authority;

(e) so far as practicable, the matters listed in section 17(4) of the Act; and

(f) any further matters relating to the child as appear to the authority to be relevant for the making of the care plan.