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Publication - Consultation paper

Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill: consultation

Published
21 December 2023
From
Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport, +50 more … Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Chief Allied Health Professions Officer, Chief Executive of NHS Scotland and Director-General Health and Social Care, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Midwifery Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Operating Officer of NHS Scotland, Chief Social Researcher, Clinical Director, Healthcare Quality and Improvement, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic, Director for Constitution, Director for Children and Families, Director of Communications and Ministerial Support, Director of Covid Recovery and Public Service Reform, Director of Digital, Director of Digital Health and Care, Director of Jobs and Wellbeing Economy, Director of Education Reform, Director of Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights, Director of Health and Social Care Finance, Director of Health Workforce, Director of Healthcare Quality and Improvement, Director of Justice, Director of Learning, Director of Legal Services and Solicitor to the Scottish Government, Director for Lifelong Learning and Skills, Director of Local Government and Housing, Director of Mental Health, Director of Parliamentary Counsel Office, Director of Primary Care, Director of Safer Communities, Director of Social Care and National Care Service Development, Director of Social Security, Director of Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice, Director-General Communities, Director-General Education and Justice, Director-General Health and Social Care, First Minister, Lord Advocate, Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise, Minister for Higher and Further Education; and Minister for Veterans, Minister for Housing, Minister for Parliamentary Business, Minister for Public Health and Women's Health, Minister for Victims and Community Safety, Permanent Secretary, Solicitor General
Directorate
Mental Health Directorate
Topic
Building a new Scotland, Children and families, Communities and third sector, +7 more … Education, Equality and rights, Health and social care, Housing, Law and order, Transport, Work and skills
ISBN
9781835217634

We are committed to protecting, respecting and championing the rights of people with learning disabilities and neurodivergent people. This consultation on proposals for a Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill seeks the views of everyone on how we can do this.

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Part 6: How to Respond

We are inviting responses to this consultation by 10pm on Sunday 21 April 2024.

Some sections of this consultation may be more relevant to particular individuals than others. Therefore, you may wish to only answer the questions or sections you find most relevant.

We encourage you to submit a response, regardless of how many questions you would like to answer.

Responding online

If you are able to, please respond using Citizen Space, the Scottish Government's online consultation hub. Here you will be directed to the 'About You' page before submitting your response. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are content for your response to be published. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will not publish it.

The LDAN Bill consultation on Citizen Space can be found here.

Written responses

If you are unable to respond online, please complete the Respondent Information Form and send with your completed questionnaire to:

By Post: FREEPOST – LDAN BILL

(simply put form in an envelope and add address above – 3 words – all in capital letters - to post your response free from any postage costs)

Or by email: LDAN.Bill@gov.scot

You can submit any written form of response this way too, so long as you have provided answers to the About You questions on pages 1-4 of the Respondent Information Form, and in particular whether you would like your response to be published, and follow the flow of the questions, answering the questions as they are set out.

Responding by audio or video

You are welcome to submit a response in an audio clip, video, or BSL video file – please email these to LDAN.Bill@gov.scot.

As part of your response, you must include answers to the About You questions in pages 1-4 of the respondent information form so that we can accept your response. Please always supply a way to contact you so we can reach you if anything is missing and so that your responses can be accepted.

How your response will be handled

To find out how we handle your personal data, please see our privacy policy:

Privacy - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise. However, personal data would never be disclosed.

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material, responses will be made available to the public at http://consult.gov.scot. If you use the consultation hub to respond, you will receive a copy of your response via email.

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us understand the views and issues. Responses will be published only where we have been given permission to do so. An analysis report will also be made available.

Consultation is an essential part of the policy making process. It gives us the opportunity to consider your opinion and expertise on a proposed area of work.

Depending on the nature of the consultation exercise the responses received may:

  • indicate the need for policy development or review;
  • inform the development of a particular policy;
  • help decisions to be made between alternative policy proposals; and,
  • be used to finalise legislation before it is implemented.

While details of particular circumstances described in a response to a consultation exercise may usefully inform the policy process, consultation exercises cannot address individual concerns and comments, which should be directed to the relevant public body.

For information on how to make a complaint please visit:

Make a complaint - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Contact

Email: LDAN.Bill@gov.scot

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