Bring together the care planning services offered to children looked after at home, with the care provision required when children are separated from their birth parents… Read More
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
Introduces provisions to better ensure permanence planning for looked after children… Read More
Getting it right for looked after children and young people strategy
This strategy sets out what we are doing and what we expect other corporate parents to do… Read More
Education outcomes for looked after children: 2016 to 2017
Data on attainment, post-school destinations, school attendance, school exclusions and achievement of curriculum for excellence attainment levels… Read More
Housing Options Protocols for Care Leavers
This guidance has been published to assist local authorities and their community planning partners in the development and implementation of local ‘Housing Options Protocols for Care Leavers’. Read More
Scottish Care Leavers Covenant. Supporting corporate parents to improve the lives of care leavers
The Scottish Care Leavers Covenant supports Scotland’s corporate parents, carers, practitioners, managers and decision makers in fulfilling their duties to improve the life chances of all of Scotland’s care leavers… Read More
Allowances Report 2019-20 for Scotland
In the summer of 2019, The Fostering Network conducted a survey of all 32 local authorities in Scotland using freedom of information requests in order to get a picture of fostering allowances for local authority foster carers across the country… Read More
Staying Put Scotland
Guidance for Local Authorities and other Corporate Parents: Supporting looked after children and young people to remain in care, as part of a staged transition towards adulthood and greater independence… Read More
How safe are our children?
For the past six years our annual How safe are our children? report has compiled and analysed data from across the UK to show the current child protection landscape. Read More
The Early Years Framework (Parts 1 & 2)
The Scottish Government’s Early Years Framework (2009) is aimed at giving Scotland’s children the best start in life and outlines the steps the Government, local partners and practitioners in early years services need to take to break negative cycles of inequality through early intervention. Read More
