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Introduction
The draft Children's Services (Scotland) Bill, consulted on before the Election, contained 2 Parts. Part 1 proposed new legal provisions to define at a high level the roles and responsibilities of all agencies (not just social work or local authorities) to identify need and to act to help children. Part 2 proposed changes to the statutory basis for referring children to the Children's Hearings system and various changes to the operation of the Children's Hearings system.
The report is structured as follows:
Summary
Chapter 1 introduces the main report.
Chapter 2 profiles the organisations and individuals who responded to this consultation.
Chapter 3 sets out the broad key themes of the consultation responses.
Chapter 4 provides information about the responses to the 15 questions asked about the draft Bill.
Chapter 5 provides information about the responses to the 7 questions asked on additional policy or legislation and the 1 question was asked on the process of consultation.
Chapter 6 discusses other issues on which specific questions were not asked but where respondents have provided detailed comments.
Chapter 7 concludes the document.
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