Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014

56 Corporate 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).