Prospective

Part 1 S Children’s care system

Chapter 2 S Support etc. for persons in or with experience of children’s care system: modification of enactments

Kinship care assistance S

17 Kinship care needs assessment S

(1) The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 is amended by subsections (2) and (3).

(2) After section 71, insert—

“71A Kinship care assistance: comprehensive needs assessment

(1) A local authority must, in relation to a person falling within section 71(3) in the authority’s area, offer to assess that person’s kinship care assistance needs under this Part.

(2) A person falling within section 71(3) in a local authority’s area, may apply to the authority to request—

(a) an assessment of their kinship care assistance needs,

(b) a review of an existing assessment.

(3) Where a person has made an application under subsection (2), the assessment or review must be carried out no later than three months after the application was received.”.

(3) In section 73(3), after paragraph (c) insert—

“(ca) when or how a local authority is to assess a person’s kinship care assistance needs,

(cb) when or how a local authority is to review an assessment of a person’s kinship care assistance needs,”.

(4) The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 is amended by subsection (5).

(5) In section 4 (provisions relating to performance of functions by local authorities), after “Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 1)” insert “or section 71A of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 2014”.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 17 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 70(2)