Section 99: Annual report on wider redress actions
292.This section requires a “relevant person” to produce a report on the activity they have undertaken to redress the historical abuse of children within each reporting period for which they qualify as a relevant person. A “relevant person” is someone who is a scheme contributor at any time during the first nine months of the reporting period under consideration. The first 12 month reporting period will begin when this section comes into force, and thereafter each successive 12 month period will be a reporting period (see subsection (7)). In accordance with subsection (1), redress reports must be sent to the Scottish Ministers within two months of the end of each reporting period.
293.Subsection (2) sets out the types of support which a redress report must include information about. Where no such support has been provided by the relevant person, they must provide the reasons why this is the case. Subsection (3) provides that a redress report must not include the name of any individual, or any other information which could be used to identify an individual, unless (under subsection (4)) the individual has, following consultation, given the person preparing the report written notice of their agreement to being identified in the report.
294.Under subsection (5), the Scottish Ministers must collate the information received in redress reports for each 12 month period into a combined report and publish this report. Where a person who is not otherwise under a duty to report prepares a report and submits it to the Scottish Ministers, the Scottish Ministers may opt to collate this information into the combined report mentioned in subsection (5) if they so wish.
295.Under subsection (7), the Scottish Ministers may make regulations (subject to the negative procedure) to bring the cycle of reporting periods to an end.
