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The instrument follows on from the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 and the Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025 (Consequential Modifications) Regulations 2026 which the Committee considered at its meeting of 26 November 2025.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 February 2026
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.
While 51% of respondents did not answer a question on whether there should be “some measure of payment for panel members, over and above the current system of expenses, in return for the introduction of new and updated expectations”, of the 49% that did answer, 26% said no and 74% said yes.
A proposal for the creation of a new ‘legal member’ was not a recom...
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.