Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision to bring all under 18s within the scope of the children’s hearings system and about the measures that may be included in compulsory supervision orders, the provision of information to certain persons as to disposals made by the hearings system, and about supervision and guidance for children after age 18; to make provision treating under 18s as children for the purposes of the criminal justice system and about how children are treated in that system, including providing for new safeguards for children in court, the circumstances in which courts must seek advice from a children’s hearing or remit the case to a hearing for disposal, the court’s power to impose driving disqualifications and penalty points despite so remitting, the operation of sexual offences notification requirements on such remittal, and the use of secure accommodation, and removing the option of young offenders institutions and remand centres, when detaining children; to make changes to provision on secure accommodation and the regulation of secure accommodation services, including those services which take children from other parts of the United Kingdom; to change the age at which a person is a child for the purposes of antisocial behaviour orders; to repeal provisions on the named person service and on child’s plans; to make provision about UNCRC compatibility issues in relation to decisions to prosecute children; and for connected purposes.