# Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, Section 30: Children's hearing: duty to consider appointing safeguarder


(1) A children's hearing must consider whether to appoint a person to safeguard the interests of the child to whom the children's hearing relates (a “safeguarder”).
(2) A children's hearing may appoint a safeguarder at any time when the children's hearing is still deciding matters in relation to the child.
(3) A children's hearing must record an appointment made under subsection (2).
(4) If a children's hearing appoints a safeguarder, it must give reasons for its decision.
(5) Subsection (1) does not apply where a safeguarder has already been appointed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/1/section/30 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-hearings-scotland-act-2011/section-30
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