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The financial memorandum to the bill states that the age of 17 and a half would be the cut-off point for referral, but we know from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s general comment 24 on child-friendly justice that the relevant date in human rights standards is the date when the harmful behav...
On the medicine side, we have had whole-system working across the community and the acute hospital, with the aim of achieving in-hospital interventions, or actions on planned date of discharge and early discharge.
The SGF said it was concerned about the potential for confusion if the date of a ban is staggered across the four nations and would support a delay to the ban to allow alignment.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 September 2023