Care Leaver Payment: response to SCoSS Scrutiny of draft regulations

Letter To Scottish Commission on Social Security

Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise

Natalie Don-Innes MSP

T: 0300 244 4000
E: scottish.ministers@gov.scot

Ed Pybus
Scottish Commission on Social Security
c/o Secretariat
Area 1-C South
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ

21 January 2026

Dear Mr Pybus,

Thank you for your scrutiny report of 27 November on the Care Leaver Payment (CLP) draft regulations. I greatly appreciate the time and effort, alongside the willingness, of SCoSS members to engage with officials and in helping to scrutinise these regulations by providing insightful and relevant policy analysis.

This letter is to inform you that Scottish Ministers have today laid the Care Leaver Payment Regulations 2026 and accompanying documents in parliament. As per section 97 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, we have also laid a response to Commission’s recommendations on the draft regulations.

I have attached a copy of the Scottish Government’s full response to the SCoSS recommendations, which I have also sent to the convener of the Education, Children and Young People Committee and the Social Justice and Social Security Committee.

Yours sincerely,

Natalie Don-Innes MSP

Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise