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Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC; [1] / ˈ ɡ ɜːr f ɛ k / GUR-fek [2]) is the Scottish Government's approach to supporting children and young people. It is intended as a framework that will allow organisations who work on behalf of the country's children and their families to provide a consistent, supportive approach for all. [ 3 ]
The revised name - Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection - reflects the centre's broader remit including supporting national and local child protection work in Scotland. [citation needed] CELCIS is a leading improvement and innovation centre. It is involved in supporting the implementation of policy into practice.
Redress Scotland is the redress scheme for child abuse in Scotland following the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry. Based in Glasgow, it is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government. The organisation was created by the passing of the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act 2021 [1]. In 2025 ...
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The inquiry cost more than £3 million between 1 April 2021 and 30 June 2021, despite not sitting since 27 May 2021. [95] By comparison for cost, the completed Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was a total of AUD$372 million for a much wider terms of reference including child abuse outside residential care and ...
However, in October 2021 the UK Supreme Court held that central provisions of the bill were outside the authority of the Scottish Parliament. [3] In December 2023, the Scottish Parliament reconsidered the Bill, amended it to address the Supreme Court's ruling and passed it 117-0 [ 4 ] and it received Royal Assent on 16 January 2024, meaning it ...
The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed on 19 February 2014 and received royal assent on 27 March 2014. [1] The legislation is part of the Scottish Government's Getting it right for every child policy implementation. The scope of the act as described in its long title is to make provision:
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to amend the Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland Act 1871 in order to abolish the offices of librarian and fiscal; to rename the Widows' Fund as the Dependents' Fund and to make further provision as regards persons entitled to the benefit of that fund; to make new provision for members of the Society to resign; and to give the Society new powers ...