Section 19 Kinship care assistance: power to require information-sharing by local authorityI1

The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 is amended as follows.

After section 73A, insert—

“Kinship care assistance functions: information-sharing by local authority

73B

(1)

The Scottish Ministers may by regulations require a local authority to provide them with information relating to functions conferred by this Part.

(2)

The information which a local authority may be required to provide under this section—

(a)

includes, in particular, anonymised or aggregated information about—

(i)

the number of kinship care assistance arrangements supported by the authority,

(ii)

the types of assistance provided by the authority,

(iii)

the effect of the assistance provided in terms of outcomes for children and their kinship carers,

(b)

does not include information about individuals.

(3)

Regulations under this section may make provision about the manner and form in which the information is to be provided by a local authority.”.