Good Practice Guidance - Implementation of Secure Accommodation Authorisation (Scotland) Regulations 2013

Footnotes

1. The Scottish Government (2009) action plan for improving children's rights in Scotland, Do the Right! Thing, also highlights the importance of improving secure accommodation decision making and ensuring the child's voice is heard within all decision making processes which affect them. Available at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/08/27111754/25

2. Section 151 (3) of the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 defines the 'head of unit' as the person in charge of the residential establishment containing the secure accommodation in which the child is to be placed.

3. See additional reading in Annex 3.

4. See Annex 2 for an example of a form which could be used for recording purposes.

5. For more information see: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/1141/0065063.pdf

6. These processes for early review, which are already in place in a number of local authority areas, have been shown to be most effective where they are able to draw on multi-disciplinary perspectives including health and education. See also paragraph 1.5 in this guidance.