Cross-Border Placements (Effect of Deprivation of Liberty Orders) (Scotland) Regulations 2022: practice guidance, notice and undertaking template
This practice guidance is out of date and should not be used. It has been replaced by the Cross-border Placement of Children (Requirements, Effect, and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2026.
Annex A
The Cross-border Placements (Effect of Deprivation of Liberty Orders) (Scotland) Regulations 2022
Placement Notice and Undertaking Template
This written notice and undertaking is to be given to the following persons to comply with the Cross Border Placements (Effect of Deprivation of Liberty Orders) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (“the Regulations”):
a. ☐ the Health Board which provides health services in the area in which the child is to be placed
b. ☐ the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland
c. ☐ the person in charge of the residential care setting in which the child is to be placed
d. ☐ the Chief Social Work Officer of the receiving local authority
e. ☐ any person acting for the time being as the director of education of the receiving local authority
f. ☐ the Scottish Ministers
g. ☐ the Principal Reporter
h. ☐ Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (otherwise known as “the Care Inspectorate”).
This document should be completed and given in line with the guidance.
The Placing Local Authority (England and Wales) or Health and Social Care trust (Northern Ireland) giving this notice and undertaking:
Name and title of authorised representative:
Address:
Email:
Tel: