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CONSULTATION ON NATIONAL FOSTERING AND KINSHIP CARE STRATEGY

Responding to this consultation paper

We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by Friday 16 February 2007.

Please send your response to:
NationalFosteringStrategy@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

or

If you have any queries contact Margaret Rooney on 0131 244 5480.

I would be grateful if you would use the consultation questionnaire provided or could clearly indicate in your response which questions or parts of the consultation paper you are responding to as this will aid our analysis of the responses received. Please note the use of the questionnaire is optional. Relevant responses in any format is welcome.

This consultation, and all other Scottish Executive consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Executive website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations. You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is.

You may also be interested to know that the Scottish Executive now has an email alert system for consultations:

( SEconsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx). This system allows you to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements, but in no way replaces SE distribution lists, and is designed to allow you to keep up to date with all SE consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. I would encourage you to register.

Handling your response

I need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form at Annex B of the consultation paper as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

You should be aware that the Scottish Executive is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

Next steps in the process

Where you have given permission for your response to be made public (in the Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Executive Library in April 2007. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the SE Library on 0131 244 4565. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

What happens next ?

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us reach a decision on the National Fostering and Kinship care Strategy. We aim to issue a report on this consultation process in the spring of 2007.

Comments and complaints

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:

Name:

Margaret Rooney

Address:

E-mail: Margaret.rooney@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Margaret Rooney
Looked After Children Branch

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