Healthcare professionals - supporting children and young people who may have experienced child sexual abuse: clinical pathway

The purpose of this guidance is to ensure a consistent approach to the provision of healthcare and forensic medical examination services for children and young people of either sex who may have experienced sexual abuse.


Appendix B – Legal and policy context

The links below provide further information on the legal and policy context surrounding Children and Young People who have suffered sexual abuse:

Age of Legal Capacity Act 1991[48]

Children (Scotland) Act 1995[49]

Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011[50]

Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009[51]

Children and Young People’s (Scotland) Act 2014[52]

Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) Scotland Act 2019[53]

Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021[54]

Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000[55]

Female Genital Mutilation (2005): Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005[56]

Equally Safe: Scotland's strategy to eradicate violence against women[57]

Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014[58]

Taskforce for the improvement of services for adults and children who have experienced rape and sexual assault[59]

National Trauma Training Framework[60]

Justice in Scotland: vision and priorities[61]

The Council of Europe Convention on Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (The Lanzarote Convention) (2018)[62]

Scottish Government (2017) Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)[63]

Scottish Government (2019) Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) Scotland Bill[64]

Contact

Email: CMOTaskforce.Secretariat@gov.scot

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