Corporate Parenting - Who Cares? Scotland

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Discover why children and
young people feel Corporate Parenting matters to them.

Click on each key aim to play their video or read their story.

Safe, Achieving, Healthy, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible, Included

What is Corporate Parenting?

In short Corporate Parenting is:

“The formal partnership needed between all local authority departments and services and associated agencies, which are responsible for working together to meet the needs of looked after children and young people”

“We Can and Must do Better” the vision emphasises that “second best is not good enough for Scotland’s Looked After children and young people”

(We Can And Must Do Better: Scottish Executive, January 2007)

View our statement of support from Adam Ingram MSP, Minister for Children and Early Years

4% increase in number of Children Looked After

Scotland’s Chief Statistician has published Children Looked After Statistics 2009-10. These new statistics are obtained from the children looked after survey completed by all local authorities in Scotland. The main...

Highland Council – Corporate Parenting Seminar

August 11, 2011

Training Event for Elected...