Cross-Border Placements Regulations: island communities impact assessment

Engagement

On 6 January 2022, we published a policy position paper on Cross-border placements of children and young people into residential care in Scotland.^[3]

Views were sought on the proposals set out in the paper for regulations that would recognise DOL orders in Scotland as if they were CSOs.

The engagement was focused, inviting views by email, given the urgency of bringing forward regulations to regulate cross-border placements. In addition to this, we met with a wide range of stakeholders and partners to discuss the proposals.

A variety of feedback was received from around 30 stakeholders. This included responses from regulatory and oversight organisations, health and social care providers, third sector organisations, and legal stakeholders.

On 25 March 2022, we published a summary paper.^[4] In that paper, we summarised the feedback received, outlined how we were taking key feedback into account, and set out the updated proposal summary.