• Membership Changes

• Background

• Introduction
  • Terminology

• DPLRC Consideration

• Key Changes proposed by the Bill

• Engagement Prior to Introduction of the Bill

• Audit Scotland report

• UNCRC/Stand-alone Provisions

• Aftercare
  • Issues with existing system
  • Eligibility for Aftercare
  • Assessment of Need
  • Resource Implications

• Corporate Parenting
  • Existing Duties & Proposed Extension
  • Resources
  • Proportionality
  • Life-long support

• Advocacy
  • Definition of independent advocacy
  • Relationships-based advocacy
  • Availability of current services
  • Life-long advocacy
  • Advocacy within Children's Hearing System

• Guidance in Relation to Care Experience
  • Evidence relating to guidance provisions
  • The Language of Care

• Profit limitation
  • Consultation on proposals
  • Profit vs surplus
  • Potential implications of proposed changes

• Fostering Services to be Charities

• Register of Foster Carers
  • Safeguarding
  • Potential Opportunities of Register
  • Matching
  • Workforce concerns
  • Questions still to be answered

• Children's Hearings
  • The Need for Change
  • Inquisitorial vs Adversarial
  • Single Member Panels
    • Interim Compulsory Supervision Orders
  • Paid Chairs
  • Specialist panel members
  • Children and Young People's Attendance at a Children's Hearing
  • Post-Referral Discussions
  • Grounds Hearings
  • Relevant Persons
  • Proposed changes to referral criteria

• Children's Services Planning

• What is not included in the Bill

• Scrutiny by the Finance and Public Administration Committee

• Conclusion

• Annexe