{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-care-experience-and-services-planning-scotland-act-2026/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-care-experience-and-services-planning-scotland-act-2026/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2026/16",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-care-experience-and-services-planning-scotland-act-2026",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Power to continue provision of continuing care up to person’s 26th birthday",
  "text": "(1) The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 26A (provision of continuing care: looked after children), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) A local authority may (but is not required to) continue to provide continuing care to a person who ceases to be an eligible person until they attain the age of 26, if it is satisfied that doing so will promote or safeguard the person’s welfare.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 70(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2026/16/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:40.185391+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."
}