Part 2 Reforms connected to delivery and regulation of care

Chapter 3 Further Ministerial functions

Monitoring and promoting fair work

34 Report on fair work
(1) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of the reporting period, prepare and publish a report on fair work in the care sector.
(2) The report must include—
(a) an assessment of the extent to which fair work in the care sector, as set out in the strategy published under section 33(1), has been achieved during the reporting period,
(b) an assessment of whether there has been any improvement in the extent to which fair work in the care sector has been achieved during the reporting period, and
(c) if that assessment is that there has been little or no improvement in the extent to which fair work in the care sector has been achieved—
(i) why that is the case, and
(ii) what action (if any) the Scottish Ministers intend to take to promote, or further promote, fair work in the care sector before the end of the next reporting period.
(3) The report may include any other information the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.
(4) In this section—
“fair work in the care sector” has the meaning given in section 33(7),
“reporting period” means—
(a) the period of one year beginning with the day on which the first version of the strategy under section 33(1) was published, and
(b) each subsequent period of one year.

S. 34 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 39(2)
S. 34 in force at 7.1.2026 by S.S.I. 2025/388, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. Pt. 1