The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on a Children and Young People Bill (closing 25 September). This will bring together earlier plans for separate legislation on children’s services and children’s rights into ‘a single, comprehensive framework’. The proposals therefore combine embedding the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Scots law with provisions to require fuller implementation of the Getting it right for every child approach – e.g. by ensuring that a single planning process is in place to support children and young people who need the involvement of a range of services, and with changes to care, including raising from 21 to 25 the age at which young people leaving care have the right to ask for help from a local authority.