Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001

Grants, loans and other payments S

68 Grants in respect of activities relating to child care and family support S

(1) The Scottish Ministers may make grants to persons who—

(a) to any extent, undertake or engage in activities which relate to—

(i) the protection or care, under or by virtue of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c.49) F1 ... the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.36) [F2 or the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 1)], of children; or

(ii) the provision of support, under or by virtue of [F3 any] of those Acts, to families; or

(b) propose to undertake or engage in such activities to any extent.

(2) The Scottish Ministers may make the payment of a grant in pursuance of subsection (1) above subject to such conditions and requirements (including a requirement that the whole or any part of the grant be repaid) as they think fit.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in s. 68(1) repealed (24.6.2013) by The Childrens Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Modification of Primary Legislation) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/211), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 11(a)

F2 Words in s. 68(1) inserted (24.6.2013) by The Childrens Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Modification of Primary Legislation) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/211), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 11(b)

F3 Word in s. 68(1) substituted (24.6.2013) by The Childrens Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Modification of Primary Legislation) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/211), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 11(c)

69 Amendment of Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: delegation of power to make grants and loans to certain voluntary organisations etc. S

In section 10 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c.49) (financial and other assistance to voluntary organisations etc. for social work)—

(a) after subsection (1) there is inserted—

“(1A) The Scottish Ministers may make grants and loans of such amounts, and subject to such conditions, as they may determine to a voluntary organisation engaged as is mentioned in subsection (1) above to enable that organisation (in this section referred to as the “primary organisation”) to make grants and loans (in this section referred to as “secondary grants and loans”) to other voluntary organisations, or other persons, so engaged, in circumstances where it appears to the primary organisation that the secondary grants and loans should be made; and the Scottish Ministers may require that any secondary grant be subject to such conditions (including conditions for securing the repayment in whole or in part of that grant) as they may specify.”;

and

(b) in subsection (2), for the words “under the foregoing subsection" there is substituted “ by the Scottish Ministers under subsection (1) or (1A) above ”.

F4 70 Amendment of Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968: direct payments to children for care services S

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Textual Amendments

F4 S. 70 repealed (1.4.2014) by The Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 (Consequential and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/90), art. 1, sch. Pt. 1 (with art. 3)

71 Amendment of Children Act 1975: maintenance payments to children S

In section 50 of the Children Act 1975 (c.72) (which empowers a local authority to make payments for or towards the maintenance of a child under sixteen who is residing with and being cared for, other than as a foster child, by a person other than the parent of the child), for the word “sixteen" there is substituted “ eighteen ”.