Top Stories
- A Care Experienced social worker demands real change within the care system and feels the Conservative government has lied about their promises to the care community – www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/02/children-care-leaver-social-worker-tories
- Louise Hunter, Chief Executive at Who Cares? Scotland, talked to STV news about the lack of progress in Keeping The Promise and the impact this is having on Care Experienced young people – https://vimeo.com/796042672/22eb667637
Here’s your news from across the UK:
- Terry Galloway, who was moved in and out of care more than a hundred times as a child, says he will not give up after a key recommendation from the Care Review was rejected by the government – www.itv.com/news/central/2023-02-02/i-need-to-honour-my-sisters-legacy-care-review-terry-galloway-hazel-councils
- Pressure has been growing on Scottish Government to stop pushing ahead with National Care Service reforms – www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23289335.minister-urged-throw-towel-national-care-service/
- National Audit Office says the attainment gap is continuing to grow for disadvantaged children – www.itv.com/news/2023-01-31/learning-loss-for-disadvantaged-pupils-greater-than-peers-says-watchdog
- Judge asserts children are in “extreme crisis” due to lack of secure units – www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/01/31/children-are-in-extreme-crisis-top-judge-berates-dfes-six-year-failure-to-tackle-gross-lack-of-secure-units/
- Opinion piece arguing that the British government does not care about young people in care as shown by their response to abuse – www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/children-in-care-are-not-a-priority-for-this-government
- Article on the struggles kinship carers are facing and some of the measures the government is taking to combat them – https://uk.news.yahoo.com/kinship-carers-big-sacrifices-struggle-151300427.html
- The Department of Education has accepted all changes recommended by the Competition and Markets Authority to tackle children’s social care – www.gov.uk/government/news/children-s-social-care-cma-recommendations-accepted-by-uk-government
- Less than a year after a report revealed that children living in the Edinburgh’s secure care accommodation had been assaulted by staff, government school inspectors have heavily criticised the council for failing to provide adequate education for the young people in their care – www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/edinburgh-councils
- A Care Experienced young person in Norwich has started his own fashion line. Zakaria wants to invest the profits back into his community – www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/23299716.nr3-man-difficult-background-creates-clothing-line/
- A book has been published about a Care Experienced person’s journey to becoming an RAF pilot. – www.edp24.co.uk/news/23294743.norwich-denis-elliot-book-going-orphan-raf-pilot/
- Tory MSP Roz McCall has slated the Scottish Government for refusing to commit to another one of their promises, this time to pay foster carers more money – www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-blasted-foster-carers-scotland-29133577
- SNP MP calls for care experience to become a protected characteristic despite Westminster opposition – www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/snp-mp-calls-care-experience-29114794
