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  • Children’s Hearing Redesign Consultation

    Created: 23/08/2024
    News/Events Category: Consultations
    This item will show under the following categories: Children and Families  

    This consultation seeks to redesign Scotland’s children’s hearing system, aiming to build on its strength and improve the experience for children and families in need of support. The focus is on areas which may require changes to the law.

    The policy aims are:

    • To ensure that the children’s hearings system meets the needs, and respects the rights, of all the children and families it serves
    • To ensure that the processes of the children’s hearings system support children and families to properly participate and engage - with the referred child always at the centre
    • To support the children's hearings system to become more inquisitorial and to minimise the application of adversarial proceedings, without diminishing the significance of the process
    • To ensure that the children’s hearings system and the professionals operating within it have the capacity to deliver what each child needs
    • To ensure each child continues to be treated in a way that is trauma-informed and accounts for their age and stage of development
    • To make other technical and procedural alterations where it is necessary, appropriate or beneficial to ensure processes and procedures work more effectively

    How to complete the consultation

    This is a detailed consultation and you may not be able to complete it in one sitting. You can save and return to your responses while the consultation is still open. There is no requirement to complete every question in the consultation. You can fill in the full consultation or you can respond to the particular questions or sections you have an interest in. However, please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date.

    The closing date for views is Monday 28 October 2024.




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