Cross-Border Placements Regulations: child rights and wellbeing impact assessment

9. How will you communicate to children and young people the impact of the policy/measure on their rights?

As above – the offer of advocacy that we intend to extend to children on cross-border DOL placements will support them to understand and realise their rights, and to provide their views to the residential provider - as to how their in-placement experience aligns with their child's plan and how their welfare is being protected, in line with the welfare analysis submitted to the High Court when the placing authority first applied for the DOL order.

As and when the young person returns to their local community within the placing authority, the Scottish advocacy worker will make contact with the advocacy organisation appointed elsewhere in the UK to ensure a smooth transition for the young person.