Residential Care Cross-Border Regulations Guidance Working Group

Overview

This group was established on 19 June 2025. 

It will produce guidance that sets out what is required to adhere to the new cross-border regulations being developed and will include best practices examples to support Scottish partners and placing local authorities in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. 

The group will operate for a period of six months and the guidance, and any supporting materials, will be published in February 2026 alongside the new regulations. 

Members

• Angus Independent Advocacy 
• Care Inspectorate
• Care Visions
• Children’s Legal Centre Wales 
• Clackmannanshire Council
• Clan Childlaw 
• East Ayrshire Advocacy Services
• East Ayrshire Council 
• East Lothian Council
• Education Scotland
• Family Rights Group
• Greenleaf House
• Harmeny Education Trust 
• Health Improvement Scotland 
• Highland Council
• Horizons Residential Care 
• Moore House Care and Education
• Moray Council
• NHS Borders 
• NHS Lanarkshire 
• NHS Ayrshire and Arran
• North Ayrshire Council
• Our Promise Scotland
• Partners in Advocacy 
• Pebbles Care 
• Phoenix Abbey 
• Police Scotland 
• Rossie Young People’s Trust
• South Lanarkshire Council
• Who Cares? Scotland

Publications