SP Bill 83 Session 5 (2020) 2 Disabled Children and Young People (Transitions to Adulthood) (Scotland) Bill Part 1—National Transitions Strategy 2 Consultation on strategy (1) The Scottish Ministers must, in preparing the National Transitions Strategy— (a) publish a draft strategy, (b) consult on the draft strategy, and 5 (c) take into account any views and information received by them by virtue of such consultation. (2) In preparing the National Transitions Strategy, the Scottish Ministers must consult such persons as they consider appropriate, and are likely to be directly affected by the National Transitions Strategy, or otherwise to have an interest in that strategy. 10 (3) The persons consulted under subsection (2) must include— (a) children and young people with a disability, (b) the parents, legally appointed guardians or other carers, of children and young people with a disability, (c) organisations working for, and on behalf of, children and young people with a 15 disability and their families, (d) organisations consisting of people with a disability, (e) local authorities, (f) Health Boards, (g) Integration Joint Boards, and 20 (h) the providers of other services to children and young people with a disability and their families or other carers. 3 Publication and laying of strategy (1) Within one year of Royal Assent the Scottish Ministers must— (a) publish the National Transitions Strategy, and 25 (b) lay a copy of it before the Scottish Parliament. (2) As soon as reasonably practicable after complying with subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers must— (a) publish a report setting out— (i) the consultation process taken in order to comply with section 2, and 30 (ii) the ways in which views expressed...