Reporting 30 22 Reports on case reviews (1) A case review panel must prepare a report on each domestic homicide or suicide review it completes. (2) A report must include— (a) the dates, or approximate dates, of any events prior to the death in question which 35 have been identified by the panel as being of significance, (b) information about any occasions when, in the panel’s opinion, an opportunity was missed to— (i) safeguard those affected by abusive domestic behaviour, or 26 Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Domestic homicide and suicide reviews (ii) promote the wellbeing of victims of abusive domestic behaviour, (c) the conclusions the panel has drawn from the review, (d) the panel’s reasons for reaching those conclusions, (e) any recommendations the panel has as a result of those conclusions. 5 (3) If the panel is unable to produce a unanimous report, the report must reasonably reflect the points of disagreement. (4) Once the panel has prepared a report, the chair of the panel must submit the report to the review oversight committee for approval. (5) On receipt of a report, the committee may— 10 (a) approve the report either without modification or with such modifications as it 1 considers appropriate for the purpose of ensuring that the report is of satisfactory quality and accords with the review’s terms of reference, or (b) direct the chair of the panel to resubmit the report with such modifications made to it as the direction specifies, and any further changes the panel considers 15 appropriate, for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (a). (6) Subsection (5) applies to a report which is resubmitted following a direction to do so as it applies to the originally submitted report. (7) The review oversight committee must provide a copy of a report approved under subsection (5)— 20 (a) in every case, to the Scottish Ministers, and (b) where the review relates to the death of a young person or an adult at risk, to Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland. (8) The review oversight committee— (a) may publish a report, or part of a report, approved under subsection (5) only with 25 the consent of the Lord Advocate, but (b) must publish (in the report or otherwise) such information as it considers appropriate about the recommendations made in the report. (9) The chair of the review oversight committee must ensure that a published report does not identify, or include information which would or might allow the identification of, 30 a living individual unless the individual has consented to the identification or (as the case may be) the inclusion of the information. (10) In this section— “abusive domestic behaviour” means abusive behaviour by person A towards person B, within the meaning of section 9(2), 35 “adult at risk” means a person whom the panel considers to have been, immediately prior to the person’s death, an adult at risk within the meaning of section 3 of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, “young person” means a person— (a) who is under the age of 18, or 27 Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Domestic homicide and suicide reviews (b) who— (i) is under the age of 26, and (ii) at some point has been looked after, within the meaning of section 17(6) or 17A(2) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, by a local 5 authority. 23 Requirement to respond to report recommendations (1) A person may be required, by a statement to that effect in a report approved under section 22(5), to respond to a recommendation in the report. (2) Where a requirement to respond is imposed by virtue of subsection (1)— 10 (a) the review oversight committee must give a copy of the report to the person, and 1 (b) the person must, within such reasonable period as the committee specifies, provide the committee and the Scottish Ministers with a written statement which sets out— (i) what the person has done, or proposes to do, to give effect to the recommendation, 15 (ii) to the extent that the person does not intend to give effect to the recommendation, the person’s reasons for that. (3) The review oversight committee and the Scottish Ministers may each— (a) publish (in full or in part) a person’s written response to a recommendation, (b) publicise a person’s failure to comply with a requirement to respond. 20 24 Periodic reports (1) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each reporting period— (a) prepare and publish a report in respect of activity relating to domestic homicide or suicide reviews during the reporting period, 25 (b) lay...