Explanatory Notes

Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014

2014 asp 8

27 March 2014

Commentary on Sections

Part 3 – Children’s Services Planning

Section 11 – Children’s services plan: review

35.Subsection (1) provides that local authorities and the relevant health board in an area must jointly keep the children’s services plan under review and as a consequence of that review may prepare a revised plan.

36.Subsection (2) provides that sections 9, 10 and 11(1) apply to a revised children’s services plan as they apply to a children’s services plan. This means that revised plans must be prepared with a view to securing the aims listed in section 9, must be prepared following the process set out in section 10 and that the revised plan itself must be kept under review and may also be revised in accordance with section 11(1).