(1)A corporate parent must have regard to any guidance about corporate parenting issued by the Scottish Ministers.
(2)Guidance may, in particular, include advice or information about—
(a)how corporate parents should—
(i)exercise their corporate parenting responsibilities,
(ii)promote awareness of their corporate parenting responsibilities,
(iii)plan, collaborate or report in pursuance of sections 59, 60 or 61, or
(iv)otherwise exercise functions under this Part,
(b)outcomes which corporate parents should seek to achieve in exercising functions under this Part.
(3)Before issuing or revising guidance, the Scottish Ministers must consult––
(a)any corporate parent to which it relates, and
(b)such other persons as they consider appropriate.