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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Regulation of Care (Child Contact Services) (Equality) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 1 April 2027.
(2) In these Regulations “SCSWIS” means Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland, constituted under section 44 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
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(1) Paragraph (2) applies where SCSWIS is of the view that a person registered to provide a child contact service (within the meaning of paragraph 19A of schedule 12 of the Public Reform (Scotland) Act 2010) has, or may have, failed to comply with that person’s duties under the Equality Act 2010, and in particular any duty to make reasonable adjustments to premises in order to facilitate their use by disabled people.
(2) SCSWIS must notify the Commission for Equality and Human Rights of SCSWIS’s view and provide it with such other information regarding the failure, or possible failure, as SCSWIS considers appropriate.
(3) A notification under paragraph (2) may be in such form, and communicated to the Commission for Equality and Human Rights in such manner, as SCSWIS may determine.
(4) This regulation does not affect SCSWIS’s other functions.
SIOBHIAN BROWN
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
19th November 2025