https://www.slab.org.uk/guidance/the-availability-of-increases-for-pre-hearing-visits/
https://www.slab.org.uk/guidance/the-availability-of-increases-for-pre-hearing-visits/
Reporters encourage children to have a pre hearing visit to show them where the hearing will take place and where they wait before the hearing starts.
Unless exceptional circumstances can be demonstrated, we will not grant you an increase to accompany a child to a pre hearing visit and for any associated introductory meeting with the Reporter or SCRA staff as there is no legal content involved in such a visit and no legal decision to be made or advice to be given. Someone else such as their parent, carer, advocacy worker or social worker is likely to be more suited to accompany the child if they chose to visit the hearing centre prior to a hearing taking place.
Increases in authorised expenditure
This page provides information on when increases in children’s cases are needed. It covers when increases may be needed in: an initial Children’s Hearing; at a criminal advice hearing; at an adoption advice hearing; in relation to Child Protection Orders and related hearings and Part 4 orders under the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019. The sections set out the levels of increase generally available and the circumstances in which they may be needed.
Increases in authorised expenditure
This page provides information on increases for the use of counsel within children’s A&A or ABWOR. It covers the limited scenarios in which the use of counsel under A&A is likely to be permitted (Opinions and consultations); the factors SLAB considers when assessing increase requests for counsel’s Opinion (including for appeals); the use of senior counsel; whether an increase is available for counsel to draft court documents; and the use of counsel in ABWOR cases.
Increases in authorised expenditure
Find out about increases for attending Social Work Case Conferences, Child in Care Reviews, Adoption matching panels etc, and our assessment of these.