# Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

An Act to make further provision for promoting social welfare in Scotland; to consolidate with amendments certain enactments relating to the care and protection of children; to amend the law relating to the supervision and care of persons put on probation or released from prison etc.; to restrict the prosecution of children for offences; to establish children’s panels to provide children’s hearings in the case of children requiring compulsory measures of care; and for purposes connected with the aforesaid matters.
[26th July 1968]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/49/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-work-scotland-act-1968/introduction
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