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Our news helps everyone working with and for children in need of care and protection, their families and carers, and with care leavers, to keep up to speed with what's going on in the sector, here in Scotland, and further afield.
Survey: Scotland’s new National Care Standards
10 November 2015
The Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland want your views on the principles that will form the new National Care…
Countries worldwide fail to protect children's rights
02 November 2015
The KidsRights Index - ranks how countries adhere to and are equipped to improve children's rights - found that all 165 countrie…
News release: Scottish Care Leavers Covenant
02 November 2015
At the start of National Care Leavers Week 2015, a major project to support young care leavers in Scotland has been announced. (…
Sign up and improve opportunities for our care leavers
28 October 2015
Are you a corporate parent? Sign up to the Scottish Care Leavers Covenant and support our care leavers.
Overseen but often overlooked report
06 October 2015
Home supervision provides an unparalleled opportunity to support our vulnerable children. We call for greater investment in fami…
Historic abuse inquiry
01 October 2015
The Historical Child Abuse Inquiry started its work on 1 October 2015.
Inquiry into Historical Abuse of Children in Care begins
01 October 2015
The CELCIS statement at the start of the Historic Abuse Inquiry.
A co-ordinated approach needed to tackle attainment gap
10 September 2015
The report offers a number of suggestions on how the Bill can deliver real change including the need to report on efforts to red…