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

Corporate parenting S

25 Corporate parenting: application to persons looked after before age 16 and planning S

(1) The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 57 (children and young people in relation to whom corporate parenting responsibilities apply)—

(a) in subsection (1), for paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b) every child and young person under the age of 26 who—

(i) is not looked after by a local authority, but

(ii) has, at any point in the child or young person’s life, been so looked after.”,

(b) subsection (2) is repealed.

(3) In section 59 (planning by corporate parents), after subsection (1), insert—

“(1A) A plan or revised plan must include information on how the corporate parent proposes to exercise its corporate parenting responsibilities in a way that delivers the recommendations set out in the report published on 5 February 2020 on behalf of the Independent Care Review established by the Scottish Ministers in October 2016 (“the Promise”).”.

(4) In section 99(2) (powers subject to affirmative procedure), the words “section 57(2)(b)” are repealed.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 25 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 70(2)