Chamber and committees

Question reference: S2W-30632

Asked by: Scott Barrie, MSP for Dunfermline West, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: 18 December 2006
Current status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 19 December 2006

Question

To ask the Scottish Executive when the draft legislation to implement Getting it right for every child, announced by the Minister for Parliamentary Business on 22 June 2006, will be published.

Answer

I am pleased to announce today,19 December, the publication of the Draft Children’s Services (Scotland) Billconsultation, copies of which are available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 41238). The draft bill is intended to support theimplementation of Getting it right for every child and it sets out Scottish ministers’commitment to reforming the delivery of children’s services to place a greater focuson improving outcomes for children and to create a Scotland in which every childmatters, where every child, regardless of their family background, has the bestpossible start in life. The draft bill is also available on the internet at:www.scotland.gov.uk/childrensservicesbill.

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