SP Bill 14 Session 6 (2022) 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— 1 (a) disabled children and young people, (b) the parents, legally appointed guardians or other carers, of disabled children and young people, (c) organisations working for, and on behalf of, disabled children and young people, 15 and their families, (d) organisations consisting of disabled people, (e) local authorities, (f) Health Boards, (g) Integration Joint Boards, 20 (h) Further Education Institutions, (i) Higher Education Institutions, and (j) the providers of other services to disabled children and young people and their families or other carers. 3 Publication and laying of strategy 25 (1) Within one year of Royal Assent the Scottish Ministers must— (a) publish the National Transitions Strategy, and (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— 30 (a) publish a report setting out— (i) the consultation process taken in order to comply with section 2, and (ii) the ways in which views expressed during that process have been taken account of in preparing the National Transitions Strategy, (b) lay a copy of the report published under paragraph (a) before the Scottish 35 Parliament, and (c) make a statement to the Scottish Parliament in relation to the National Transitions Strategy. 3 Disabled Children and Young People (Transitions to Adulthood) (Scotland) Bill Part 1—National Transitions Strategy 4 Duties to comply with National Transitions Strategy (1) In exercising their functions under this Act the persons listed in subsection (2) must comply with the National Transitions Strategy. (2) The persons are— 5 (a) the Scottish Ministers, (b) local authorities, (c) Health Boards, (d) Integration Joint Boards, (e) Further Education Institutions, 10 (f) Higher Education Institutions, and 1 (g) such other persons as the Scottish Ministers may prescribe by regulations. (3) Before making any regulations under subsection 4(2)(g) the Scottish Ministers must consult with— (a) such persons as appear to the Scottish Ministers to be representative of the interests 15 of persons likely to be affected by regulations introduced under subsection 4(2)(g), and (b) such other persons as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate. 5 Review and publication of National Transitions Strategy (1) The Scottish Ministers must review the National Transitions Strategy before the end of 20 each reporting period. (2) The reporting periods are— (a) the period of 3 years beginning with the day on which the first National Transitions Strategy is published under section 3, and (b) each subsequent period of 3 years. 25 (3) Following a review under subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers— (a) must prepare a report on the review, including in particular the Scottish Ministers' assessment of the extent to which the National Transitions Strategy has been complied with, and (b) may revise the strategy. 30 (4) If, following a review, the Scottish Ministers decide not to revise the National Transitions Strategy under subsection (3)(b), the report prepared under subsection (3)(a) must set out their reasons for not doing so. (5) When reviewing the National Transitions Strategy, the Scottish Ministers must consult the persons mentioned in section 2(2). 35 (6) The Scottish Ministers must— (a) publish each revision of the National Transitions Strategy, (b) publish each report prepared under subsection (3)(a) above, and 4 Disabled Children and Young People (Transitions to Adulthood) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Transitions Plans (c) lay before the Scottish Parliament— (i) a copy of each revision of the National Transitions Strategy, and (ii) each report prepared under subsection (3)(a). 6 Special responsibility 5 The Scottish Ministers are to assign to a member of the Scottish Government, or to a junior Scottish Minister, special responsibility in relation to the exercise of their functions under this Act.