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					<dc:description>This Order makes provision about relevant services to be made available under Part 12 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the Act”).</dc:description>
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<P2para><Text>Relevant services are to be provided in accordance with this article.</Text>
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<Text>For the purpose of considering whether a child is within section 68(3)(a) of <Abbreviation Expansion="Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 asp 8">the Act</Abbreviation>, a local authority must consider whether the child’s wellbeing is being, or is at risk of being, adversely affected by any matter, such that the child is at risk of becoming looked after.</Text>
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<Text>A local authority must only provide relevant services as specified in article 2 where the local authority considers that the likely benefit to the eligible child’s wellbeing in doing so outweighs any likely adverse effect on that wellbeing arising from doing so.</Text>
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<Text>In considering the likely effect on an eligible child’s wellbeing as mentioned in paragraph (3) a local authority must, so far as reasonably practicable, ascertain and have regard to the views of—</Text>
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