Change 1 Article Choose an article Title and introductory text 1 Parental responsibilities. 2 Parental rights. 3 Provisions relating both to parental responsibilities and to parental rights. 4 Acquisition of parental rights and responsibilities by natural father. 4A Acquisition of parental responsibilities and parental rights by second female parent by agreement with mother 5 Care or control of child by person without parental responsibilities or parental rights. 6 Views of children. 7 Appointment of guardians. 8 Revocation and other termination of appointment. 9 Safeguarding of child’s property. 10 Obligations and rights of person administering child’s property. 11 Court orders relating to parental responsibilities etc. 11A Restriction on making of orders under section 11 12 Restrictions on decrees for divorce, separation or annulment affecting children. 13 Awards of damages to children. 14 Jurisdiction and choice of law in relation to certain matters. 15 Interpretation of Part I. 16 Welfare of child and consideration of his views. 17 Duty of local authority to child looked after by them. 17A Detained children to be treated as looked after children 18 Duty of persons with parental responsibilities to notify change of address to local authority looking after child. 19 Local authority plans for services for children. 20 Publication of information about services for children. 21 Co-operation between authorities. 22 Promotion of welfare of children in need. 23 Children affected by disability. 23A Sections 17, 22 and 26A: consideration of wellbeing 24 Assessment of ability of carers to provide care for disabled children. 24A Duty of local authority to provide information to carer of disabled child 25 Provision of accommodation for children, etc. 26 Manner of provision of accommodation to child looked after by local authority. 26A Provision of continuing care: looked after children 27 Day care for pre-school and other children. 28 Removal of power to arrange for emigration of children. 29 After-care. 30 Financial assistance towards expenses of education or training and removal of power to guarantee indentures etc. 31 Review of case of child looked after by local authority. 32 Removal of child from residential establishment. 33 Effect of orders etc. made in different parts of the United Kingdom. 33A Regulation of cross-border placements 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Welfare of children in accommodation provided for purposes of school attendance. 36 Welfare of certain children in hospitals and nursing homes etc. 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Short-term refuges for children at risk of harm. 39 Formation of children’s panel and children’s hearings. 40 Qualification and employment of reporters. 41 Safeguarding child’s interests in proceedings. 42 Power of Secretary of State to make rules governing procedure at children’s hearing etc. 43 Privacy of proceedings at and right to attend children’s hearing. 44 Prohibition of publication of proceedings at children’s hearing. 45 Attendance of child and relevant person at children’s hearing. 46 Power to exclude relevant person from children’s hearing. 47 Presumption and determination of age. 48 Transfer of case to another children’s hearing. 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Treatment of child’s case on remission by court. 51 Appeal against decision of children’s hearing or sheriff. 52 Children requiring compulsory measures of supervision. 53 Provision of information to the Principal Reporter. 54 Reference to the Principal Reporter by court. 55 Child assessment orders. 56 Initial investigation by the Principal Reporter. 57 Child protection orders. 58 Directions in relation to contact and exercise of parental responsibilities and parental rights. 59 Initial hearing of case of child subject to child protection order. 60 Duration, recall or variation of child protection order. 61 Emergency protection of children where child protection order not available. 62 Regulations in respect of emergency child protection measures. 63 Review of case of child arrested by police. 64 Business meeting preparatory to children’s hearing. 65 Referral to, and proceedings at, children’s hearing. 66 Warrant to keep child where children’s hearing unable to dispose of case. 67 Warrant for further detention of child. 68 Application to sheriff to establish grounds of referral. 68A Restrictions on evidence in certain cases involving sexual abuse 68B Exceptions to restrictions under section 68A 69 Continuation or disposal of referral by children’s hearing. 70 Disposal of referral by children’s hearing: supervision requirements, including residence in secure accommodation. 71 Duties of local authority with respect to supervision requirements. 71A Enforcement of local authorities' duties under section 71 72 Transfer of child subject to supervision requirement in case of necessity. 73 Duration and review of supervision requirement. 74 Further provision as respects children subject to supervision requirements. 75 Powers of Secretary of State with respect to secure accommodation. 75A Requirement on Principal Reporter to consider application for parenting order 75B Failure to provide education for excluded pupils: reference to Scottish Ministers 76 Exclusion orders. 77 Effect of, and orders etc. ancillary to, exclusion order. 78 Powers of arrest etc. in relation to exclusion order. 79 Duration, variation and recall of exclusion order. 80 Exclusion orders: supplementary provisions. 81 Offences in connection with orders etc. for protection of children. 82 Recovery of certain fugitive children. 83 Harbouring. 84 Implementation of authorisations etc. 85 Application for review of establishment of grounds of referral. 86 Parental responsibilities order: general. 86A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Further provision as respects parental responsibilities orders. 88 Parental contact. 89 Offences in relation to parental responsibilities orders. 90 Consent of child to certain procedures. 91 Procedural rules in relation to certain applications etc. 92 Legal aid in respect of certain proceedings. 93 Interpretation of Part II. 94 Approval of adoption society for specific services. 95 Welfare of child paramount consideration. 96 Duty of adoption agency to consider alternatives to adoption. 97 Adoption by person married to natural parent. 98 Further amendments of the 1978 Act; and interpretation of Part III. 99 Registration of births by persons who are themselves children. 100 Inquiries into matters affecting children. 101 Panel for curatorsad litem, reporting officers and safeguarders. 101A Register for child welfare reporters 101B Register of curators ad litem for the purposes of section 11D 101C Contact services: regulation 102 Removal of duty to report on operation of Children Act 1975. 103 Interpretation, rules, regulations and Parliamentary control. 104 Financial provision. 105 Extent, short title, minor and consequential amendments, repeals and commencement. 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17A Detained children to be treated as looked after children
(1) This section applies where a child is detained in secure accommodation by virtue of section 51(1)(a), 205(2), 208(1) or, as the case may be, 216(7) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.
(2) The relevant local authority in relation to the child has the same duties towards the child as it would have by virtue of sections 17, 29, 30 and 31 if the child were looked after by that local authority.
(3) In subsection (2), the “relevant local authority”, in relation to a child, has the same meaning as in section 201 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011
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17A Detained children to be treated as looked after children
(1) This section applies where a child is detained in secure accommodation by virtue of section 51(1)(a), 205(2), 208(1) or, as the case may be, 216(7) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.
(2) The relevant local authority in relation to the child has the same duties towards the child as it would have by virtue of sections 17, 29, 30 and 31 if the child were looked after by that local authority.
(3) In subsection (2), the “relevant local authority”, in relation to a child, has the same meaning as in section 201 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011
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