Government Bills

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Safeguarding Children from Sexual Exploitation
This draft guidance aims to provide practitioners across all relevant agencies and the voluntary and community sector with information about different forms of sexual exploitation to help them identify and safeguard children and young people who are at risk of sexual exploitation, or who are being sexually exploited. It will replace the current guidance, Children involved in Prostitution, issued in 2000 and will be supplementary guidance to Working Together to Safeguard Children (HMG 2006).

Launch Date: Friday 18 July 2008
Closing Date: Friday 10 October 2008

Delivering the Children's Plan - Strengthening Children's Trusts: legislative options
Following on from the recent consultation on the Statutory Guidance for Children's Trusts on the Duty to Cooperate, which closed on 26 June, this is a further call for views and advice from partners. This discussion document now proposes a number of changes to the current framework for Children's Trusts.

Launch Date: Thursday 3 July 2008
Closing Date: Thursday 25 September 2008

School Admissions Consultation 2008
In the Children’s Plan, published in December 2007, Ministers committed to review the school application and allocation process. The Department launched today (12 June) a consultation which outlines proposed changes to make the admissions process for parents as fair, transparent and straightforward as possible.

Launch Date: Thursday 12 June 2008
Closing Date: Thursday 2 October 2008

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Towards a strategy to support volunteering in health and social care: consultation
A volunteering strategy for health and social care will articulate the key actions needed to address the perceived obstacles to making a refreshed vision for volunteering in health and social care a reality.   The consultation will run until 30 September 2008, with a view to publication of a final strategy and implementation plan in early 2009. 

Launch date: 3 June 2008
Closing date: 30 September 2008

SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE

Strengthening for the Future – a consultation on the reform of the Children’s Hearings System
Proposals for action aimed at improving the support provided by the Children’s Hearings system, through a more streamlined, consistent and less bureaucratic approach and, in the longer term, to help deliver better outcomes for Scotland's most vulnerable children.

Launch date: 01/08/2008
Close date: 24/10/2008

Consultation on amendment of secondary legislation under the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 – registration of private landlords
This consultation seeks views on proposed amendments to Regulations made under section 8 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc...

Launch date: 18/07/2008
Close date: 10/10/2008

The Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations 2009
The purpose of the consultation is to seek comments on the draft Adoption Agencies Regulations which will replace the regulations that currently provide for the operation of the adoption service by adoption agencies in Scotland.

Launch date: 07 July 2008
Close date: 29 September 2008

The Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations: Consultation on Draft Regulations
Second in a suite of consultations on Regulations supporting the implementation of the Adoption and Children (Scotland)Act 2007. This consultation is on the Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations.

Launch date: 07 July 2008
Close date: 26 September 2008

Homeless Persons (Provision of Non-permanent accommodation) (Scotland) Regulations
This consultation seeks views on proposed changes to homelessness legislation, setting out the circumstances in which non-permanent accommodation can be provided for unintentionally homeless households in priority need.

Launch date: 23/06/2008
Close date: 19/09/2008