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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-aftercare-eligible-needs-scotland-order-2015/article-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2015/9780111026601",
  "legislation_title": "The Aftercare (Eligible Needs) (Scotland) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-aftercare-eligible-needs-scotland-order-2015",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Aftercare: types of support constituting “eligible needs”",
  "text": "The following types of support are specified for the purposes of section 29(8) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995:—\n(a) financial support to meet essential accommodation and maintenance costs;\n(b) support, in the form of information or advice, to assist the person to access education, training, employment, leisure and skills-related opportunities; and\n(c) insofar as not covered by sub-paragraph (b), support, in the form of information or advice, relating to the person’s wellbeing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 29(8) provides a definition of “eligible needs” for the purposes of section 29(5A)(a) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, which was inserted by section 66(2)(f) of the 2014 Act."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2015/9780111026601/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}