Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act 2021

99 Annual report on wider redress actions

(1) Before the end of the period of 2 months beginning with the last day of each reporting period, a relevant person must prepare and send to the Scottish Ministers a report on the actions which the person has taken during the reporting period to redress the historical abuse of children (a “redress report”).

(2) A redress report must, in particular, include—

(a) information about any support which the relevant person has provided for individuals who were abused as children, for example—

(i) funding for emotional, psychological or practical support,

(ii) advice and assistance on accessing historical records,

(iii) advice and assistance on tracing and reuniting families,

(iv) activity relating to the provision of an apology to such individuals,

(b) such information as the relevant person considers appropriate about any other support which the relevant person has provided for individuals who were abused as children,

(c) where no support as described in paragraphs (a) and (b) has been provided by the relevant person, the reasons why.

(3) But a redress report must not, unless and to the extent that subsection (4) applies, include—

(a) the name of any individual, or

(b) any other information which could reasonably be used to identify any individual.

(4) This subsection applies where—

(a) the relevant person consults an individual, and

(b) that individual gives the relevant person notification of the individual’s consent to be identified in the report.

(5) The Scottish Ministers must—

(a) collate the information from the redress reports sent to them under subsection (1) into a combined report for the year to which the reports relate, and

(b) publish the combined report.

(6) Where a person prepares a redress report and sends it to the Scottish Ministers despite not having a duty under subsection (1) to do so, the Scottish Ministers may collate the information from that report into the combined report to be published under subsection (5).

(7) In this section—

• “relevant person” means, in relation to a reporting period, a person included in the contributor list during the first 9 months of the reporting period,

• “reporting period” means—

  (a)

  in the case of the first redress report, the period of 12 months beginning with the day this section comes into force,

  (b)

  each successive period of 12 months until a date specified in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers.