https://www.slab.org.uk/guidance/advice-and-assistance-declaration-form/
Where advice and assistance (including “ABWOR”) is being given under the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, you require to complete and retain on file the advice and assistance Declaration Form AA/LAO/CHLA.
This Declaration Form:
The Declaration Form will enable you to capture your client’s and your own signature. All Declaration Forms must be:
You do not have to send us a copy of the Declaration Form but we will randomly verify if it has been completed and signed appropriately. If it has not you may not be paid for the work you carry out and/or we may seek to recoup from you any monies already paid out from the Fund.
General rules:
You can print the successfully completed A&A application using the option to print before you submit it to us. This is the simplest and most efficient way to obtain your client’s signature if you are completing the application online when your client is in your presence.
At the bottom of the printout, there is a space for your client’s signature. Ensure that both your client and you sign and date this and that you keep it on file.
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