Part 1Children’s care system
Chapter 2Support etc. for persons in or with experience of children’s care system: modification of enactments
Kinship care assistance
19Kinship care assistance: power to require information-sharing by local authority
(1)
The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 is amended as follows.
(2)
“73BKinship care assistance functions: information-sharing by local authority
(1)
The Scottish Ministers may by regulations require a local authority to provide them with information relating to functions conferred by this Part.
(2)
The information which a local authority may be required to provide under this section—
(a)
includes, in particular, anonymised or aggregated information about—
(i)
the number of kinship care assistance arrangements supported by the authority,
(ii)
the types of assistance provided by the authority,
(iii)
the effect of the assistance provided in terms of outcomes for children and their kinship carers,
(b)
does not include information about individuals.
(3)
Regulations under this section may make provision about the manner and form in which the information is to be provided by a local authority.”.