PART 9Corporate parenting
I156Corporate parents
1
The persons listed, or within a description listed, in schedule 4 are “corporate parents” for the purposes of this Part (subject to subsections (3) and (4)).
2
The Scottish Ministers may by order modify schedule 4 by—
a
adding a person or description of persons,
b
removing an entry listed in it, or
c
varying an entry listed in it.
3
The Scottish Ministers are not corporate parents for the purposes of sections 61 to 64.
4
The following persons are not corporate parents for the purposes of section 64—
a
the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland,
b
a body which is a “post-16 education body” for the purposes of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005.
5
An order under subsection (2) which adds a person, or a description of persons, to schedule 4, may modify this section so as to provide that the person is not a corporate parent, or the persons within the description are not corporate parents, for the purposes of section 64.
6
In this Part, references to the “corporate parenting responsibilities” of a corporate parent are to the duties conferred on that corporate parent by section 58(1).