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Children's Hearings Bill
Scotland's most vulnerable children are to benefit from improved support thanks to measures underpinned by the new Children's Hearings (Scotland) Bill, published today.
Drawn up in response to a national consultation, the Bill will create a strengthened, modernised and streamlined system. It will be fit for the 21st century and will secure better outcomes for children, young people and their families by improving children's rights and introducing standards that will deliver national consistency.
One of the key changes will be the creation of a new national body, Children's Hearings Scotland, whose National Convener will be responsible for setting standards for the recruitment, support and training of local panel members, and for monitoring their implementation.
The Bill will also ensure that the key fundamental principles of protecting children's welfare, set out by Lord Kilbrandon when the Children's Hearings system was first established in the 1960s, remain at its heart.
February 2010
SLC report on land registration (date added: 26 February 2010)
Children's Hearings Bill (date added: 24 February 2010)
Unified court administration (date added: 22 February 2010)
Move to strengthen law on stalking (date added: 22 February 2010)
SLC Annual Report published (date added: 19 February 2010)
Home buying and selling study published (date added: 19 February 2010)
Thomson Review - the Faculty response (date added: 17 February 2010)
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (date added: 16 February 2010)
Eighth Programme of Law Reform for SLC (date added: 12 February 2010)
New law on repossession (date added: 12 February 2010)
Repossessions lower than predicted (date added: 11 February 2010)
First Annual Report from SLCC (date added: 09 February 2010)
Rise in Scotland’s property prices (date added: 08 February 2010)
Marine Bill passed (date added: 05 February 2010)
Simplifying planning policy (date added: 04 February 2010)
Scots support McKenzie Friends (date added: 02 February 2010)
