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Annex A: References to sustainable development in Scottish legislation
Please find below a list of the 26 Acts of the Scottish Parliament which refer to “sustainable development”, often prefixed by references to ‘promoting’ or ‘achieving’, up to the end of February 2024.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
Corporate Parenting
Section 3 of the Bill extends the Corporate Parenting duties under the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 to anyone under the age of 26 who has, at any point in their life, been looked after by a local authority.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 September 2025
Commitment made by the LPPO
Commitment from 2024
Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024) 2024 (SSI 2024/174)(47th Report 2024, Published 26 June 2024) The LPPO has advised that the definition will be removed at the next available opportunity.
At present, corporate parenting duties apply to looked after children, as well as those who left care on or after their 16th birthday but who are under 26.iiiChildren and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, section 57(1) and 97(2); Children (Scotland) Act 1995, sections 17(6) and 17A(2).
They also questioned why solicitors are not asking about possible domestic abuse as a matter of course.Key themes from lived experience engagement with members of Scottish Women's Aid Survivor Reference Group: 26 March
The Committee agreed a three-year pre-budget scrutiny plan to look at each principle of human rights budgeting in turn: participation in year 1, transparency in year 2 and accountability in year 3.
For the 2025-26 period, the Committee focussed its work on Budget transparency.
The policy note further states that due to budgetary pressures, it was not possible to make an above GDP Deflator increase for 2025/26. The note explains that the rates will be increased by the GDP Deflator of 2.37% with rates increasing from £248.70 to £254.60 for personal care and increasing from £111.90 to £114.55 for nursing care.
Retrieved from https://www.transport.gov.scot/our-approach/industry-guidance/parking/#45735 [accessed 26 June 2024] This means that, under section 43 of the Road Traffic Act 19912Road Traffic Act 1991. (1991).
This means that there is no impact on the 2025-26 Scottish Budget figures. Indeed, the SFC were not informed of the policy until after its final policy deadline, meaning that it has not included a costing of the policy in its fiscal forecasts.