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Publication - Factsheet

Cross-border placements of children and young people in residential care in Scotland: regulation of Deprivation of Liberty (DOL) orders

Published
25 March 2022
Directorate
Children and Families Directorate
Topic
Children and families, Law and order

This policy relates to when a High Court in a part of the UK other than Scotland has exercised its inherent jurisdiction to authorise deprivation of liberty of a child in a residential care setting in Scotland.

Annex

Annex A – links to stakeholder responses, where these have been published in full on their organisational websites

Contact

Looked_After_Children@gov.scot

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