{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-scotland-act-2016/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-scotland-act-2016/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2016/9",
  "legislation_title": "Carers (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Duty to prepare young carer statement",
  "text": "(1) In this Act a “young carer statement” means a statement prepared by a responsible authority setting out—\n(a) a young carer's identified personal outcomes,\n(b) a young carer's identified needs (if any), and\n(c) the support (if any) to be provided by the responsible local authority to a young carer to meet those needs.\n(2) If a responsible authority identifies a person as a young carer, the responsible authority must offer the person a young carer statement.\n(3) The responsible authority must prepare a young carer statement in relation to a person if—\n(a) the person accepts an offer under subsection (2), or\n(b) subsection (4) applies.\n(4) This subsection applies if a person who appears to the responsible authority to be a young carer requests a young carer statement.\n(5) Subsection (3) applies whether or not the young carer requires a child's plan in accordance with section 33 of the 2014 Act.\n(6) Where the responsible authority, in relation to a young carer, is not the responsible local authority, the responsible authority must not provide the young carer statement to the young carer without the approval of the responsible local authority.\n(7) A responsible authority must exercise its functions under this section in a manner which encourages equal opportunities and in particular the observance of the equal opportunity requirements (within the meaning of Section L2 of Part 2 of schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998).\n(7A) The Scottish Ministers must by regulations prescribe timescales for the preparation of young carer statements.\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 12(7A) inserted (7.1.2026) by Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 9), ss. 10(2), 39(2); S.S.I. 2025/388, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 12(8) repealed (7.1.2026) by Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 9), ss. 11(2), 39(2); S.S.I. 2025/388, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 12(2) excluded (1.4.2018) by The Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/34), regs. 1(1), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 1.4.2018 by S.S.I. 2017/152, reg. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/9/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:35.677188+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}