Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014

73 Kinship care assistance: further provision

(1) The assistance which may be specified as kinship care assistance includes—

(a) the provision of counselling, advice or information about any matter,

(b) the provision of financial support (or support in kind) of any description,

(c) the provision of any service provided by a local authority on a subsidised basis.

(2) An order under section 71(1) may specify assistance by reference to assistance which a person was entitled to from, or being provided with by, a local authority immediately before becoming entitled to assistance under that section.

(3) The Scottish Ministers may by order make provision about—

(a) when or how kinship care assistance is to be provided,

(b) when or how a local authority is to consider whether a child is within paragraph (a) or (b) of section 71(5),

(c) when or how a local authority is to review whether a child continues to be within paragraph (a) or (b) of section 71(5),

(d) such other matters about the provision of kinship care assistance as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.

(4) An order under subsection (3)(d) may include provision about—

(a) circumstances in which a local authority may provide kinship care assistance subject to conditions (including conditions as to payment for the assistance or the repayment of financial support), and

(b) consequences of such conditions not being met (including the recovery of any financial support provided).