Part 5Child assessment and child protection orders

Ancillary measures

40Information non-disclosure directions

1

This section applies where the sheriff makes a child protection order in respect of a child.

2

The sheriff must consider whether to include an information non-disclosure direction in the order.

3

An information non-disclosure direction is a direction that—

a

the location of any place of safety at which the child is being kept, and

b

any other information specified in the direction relating to the child,

must not be disclosed (directly or indirectly) to any person or class of person specified in the direction.

4

An information non-disclosure direction ceases to have effect when—

a

it is terminated by a children’s hearing under section 47(1)(a)(ii) or the sheriff under section 51(5)(b), or

b

the child protection order in which it is included ceases to have effect.