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cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network

Children and Young People Bill Consultation SHARING A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE Alison Reid, cl@n childlaw. cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156. 1. September 2012. cl@n childlaw.

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cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network

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  1. Children and Young People Bill Consultation SHARING A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE Alison Reid, cl@n childlaw cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 1 September 2012

  2. cl@nchildlaw • ADVOCACY & LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE • Free legal advice and representation to Children and Young People in Edinburgh and the Lothians • Training • Evidence-based Policy Development Unit cl@n childlaw Children and Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 September 2012 2

  3. Sharing a Legal Perspective • Wellbeing • Care-leavers • Corporate Parenting • Kinship Care Orders • Information Sharing and Confidentiality • Is there anything else? cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 3 September 2012

  4. New Focus on Wellbeing Proposal: Define Wellbeing based on 8 Wellbeing indicators of GIRFEC Proposal: Certain amendments to Children (Scotland) Act 1995 • How does this fit within the current legal framework and welfare? • Checklist approach cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 4 September 2012

  5. Young People Leaving Care Proposal: Extend the right of young people leaving care to request help from a local authority up to the age of 25 • Current law: Up to 21 years & Discretionary • Duty to provide assistance? • Support for young people to access? cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 5 September 2012

  6. Definition of Corporate Parenting Implemented inconsistently across Scotland Collective responsibility of relevant bodies and act in same way as birth parent • How decisions made? • Link with PRRs of birth parents & other orders? • Address conflict? • Role for Advocacy Services cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 6 September 2012

  7. Kinship Care Orders • Aim • Clear responsibility for all the day-to-day decisions about caring for the child and their upbringing • Rationale • Alternative where long-term wellbeing is best served by being with kinship carers; and • Does not need regular supervision or corporate parenting cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 7 September 2012

  8. Kinship Care Orders • Current Law • Section 11 of Children (Scotland) Act 1995 • Permanence Orders • Current difficulties? Affordability, accessibility of court processes? • Assessment and need for Support: Other way of resolving? cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 8 September 2012

  9. Confidentiality and Information Sharing “complex….and, at times, confusing legal environment for practitioners” Proposal: Address within existing legal framework cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 9 September 2012

  10. Is there anything else? • Sibling Contact • Adoption and Permanence • Physical Punishment of Children • ASBOs for under 16s • Additional Support for Learning - Appeals • Children (Scotland) Act 1995 & UNCRC implementation cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 10 September 2012

  11. cl@nchildlawNorton Park,57 Albion Road,Edinburgh EH7 5QY t: 0131 475 2567 or 075 275 66682 e: info@clanchildlaw.org w: www.clanchildlaw.org cl@n childlaw Children & Young People Bill Consultation Community Law Advice Network Registered Charity Number: SC039156 September 2012

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