What consideration it has given to the implications of any interaction between the children’s services planning processes proposed in the C…

The relationship between children’s services planning (as set out in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill) and integrated partnership arrangements (as set out in the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill) would be complementary. The children’s services planning duties will provide a mechanism for different partners in public service delivery to come together to plan effective coordinated provision of services supporting the wellbeing of children. Integrated partnership arrangements, where the health board and local authority agree to include health and social care services for children, would be partners in the process of children’s services planning. The Scottish Government is working to ensure that partnership arrangements will fit with any national expectations on children’s services plans, to be set out in national guidance.