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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2014/section-9",
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  "legislation_title": "Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014",
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  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Aims of children's services plan",
  "text": "(1) A children's services plan is to be prepared with a view to securing the achievement of the aims in subsection (2).\n(2) Those aims are—\n(a) that children's services in the area concerned are provided in the way which—\n(i) best safeguards, supports and promotes the wellbeing of children in the area concerned,\n(ii) ensures that any action to meet needs is taken at the earliest appropriate time and that, where appropriate, action is taken to prevent needs arising,\n(iii) is most integrated from the point of view of recipients, and\n(iv) constitutes the best use of available resources,\n(b) that related services in the area concerned are provided in the way which, so far as consistent with the objects and proper delivery of the service concerned, safeguards, supports and promotes the wellbeing of children in the area concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at 7.10.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/254, art. 3(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
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      "type": "word repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2026/16",
      "affecting_title": "Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "asp/2026/16",
      "affecting_title": "Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "asp/2026/16",
      "affecting_title": "Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/8/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:13.459183+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."
}