This slide updates the Children and Young People Bill information as it moves into legislation in 2014. Focus was given to the areas concerning Transitions for Children with Additional Support Needs

1. Children and Young People Bill
June 2013

2. Children and Young People Bill
• Consultation – 4 July to 25 September 2012
• Analysis of responses – 4 December 2012
• Scottish Government Response – 22 March
2013
• Bill Introduced to Parliament on 17 April
2013

3. Rights of Children and Young
People
• Place duties on Scottish Ministers to take
appropriate steps to further, promote and
raise awareness and understanding of the
rights of children and young people as set
out in the UNCRC

4. Rights of Children and Young
People
• Place a reporting duty on Scottish Ministers
and the wider public sector
• Extend the powers of Scotland’s
Commissioner for Children and Young
People

5. Wellbeing
• Provide a holistic definition ‘wellbeing’
(based on the SHANARRI Wellbeing
Indicators) that underpins the Bill’s
provisions

6. Children’s Services
• Place duties on local authorities and health
board to prepare a children’s services plan
• Place a duty on relevant public bodies to
report collectively on outcomes for children
and young people

7. Named Person
• Place duties on health boards to provide for
children from birth up to school age and on
local authorities to provide for school
children up to 18 or until they leave school.
• Place a duty on relevant establishment to
provide for children at independent/grant-
aided school or in secure
• Set out specific information-sharing
provisions

8. Child’s Plan
• Require health boards and local
authorities to ensure a Child’s Plan is
created for every child or young person
who needs one
• Place a duty on other public bodies to
cooperate as required in the production
and maintenance of the Child’s Plan

9. Early Learning and Childcare
• Place a duty on local authorities to provide a
minimum of 600 hours early learning and
childcare to 3 and 4 year olds, looked after 2 year
olds and 2 year olds subject to a kinship care
order.
• Place a duty on local authorities to consult with
locally representative populations of parents to
identify early learning and childcare needs and
respond through published local plans or
strategies.

10. Corporate Parenting
• Sets out a definition of corporate parenting
responsibilities
• Lists the bodies to which the term
‘corporate parent’ applies
• Places a duty on corporate parents to
collaborate with each other and report on
how they are exercising their corporate
parenting responsibilities

11. Assistance for Care Leavers
• Place a requirement on local authorities to
assess whether a care leaver requesting
assistance (up to and including the age of 25)
has eligible needs which cannot be met
through other means, and if so, provide such
support as it considers necessary.

12. Kinship Care Order
• Enhance support provided to kinship
carers who obtain an order under section
11(1) of the 1995 Act (which will be
designated a ‘kinship care order’).
• Place a duty on local authorities to ensure
that families in the early stages of distress
who seek help are provided with
appropriate forms of counselling

13. National Adoption Register
• Require all adoption agencies to provide
the Register with information on children
who ought to be placed for adoption and
prospective approved adoptive parents

14. Other Provisions
• Amendments to the Children’s Hearings
(Scotland) Act 2011
• Amendments to the Criminal Procedure
(Scotland) Act 1995
• Amendment to the Schools
(Consultation)(Scotland) Act 2010

15. Introduction
• Bill introduced on 17th April
• Accompanying documents published
• Written call for evidence issued – closes
26th July
• Parliamentary stages
• Commencement

16. Contacts
You can contact the Bill team at:
childrenslegislation@scotland.gsi.gov.uk