PART 1 C 5 HILDREN’S SERVICES 1 Joint inspection of children’s services (1) Any two or more of the persons and bodies to which this section applies must, at the request of the Scottish Ministers, conduct an inspection relating to the provision of children’s services. 10 (2) The Scottish Ministers may request under subsection (1) that there be conducted an inspection of the provision of— (a) all children’s services in the relevant area; (b) such children’s services provided in the relevant area as they may specify; or (c) such children’s services provided to a particular child or particular children as 15 they may specify. (3) In paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2), the “relevant area” is the whole of Scotland or such part of Scotland as the Scottish Ministers specify in their request. (4) The purposes of an inspection under this section are— (a) to review and evaluate the effectiveness of the provision of the services which are the subject of the inspection or, in the case of an inspection referred to in 20 subsection (2)(c), the effectiveness of the provision of those services to the particular child or particular children in question; and (b) to enable those conducting the inspection to report to the Scottish Ministers and to make recommendations to them.