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Ministerial Foreword
Our vision for all children in Scotland is that
"in order to become confident individuals, successful learners, effective contributors and responsible citizens, they must be safe, nurtured, healthy, achieving, included, active and respected and responsible".
For too many children in Scotland, this vision can appear impossible to achieve. There are significant, potentially overwhelming, difficulties faced by many children who may not be able to live at home with their parents.
The purpose of this consultation paper is to help develop a National Fostering and Kinship Care Strategy that will address the specific needs and to protect and support the rights of those children who need to live away from home and from their parents, for a short period of time or over the longer term.
It seeks to identify the key issues that a National Fostering and Kinship Care Strategy can tackle now to ensure we can give all such children and young people the safe, stable and secure environment that will help them achieve this vision.
Equally importantly, this consultation paper seeks views on how we can best achieve a fundamental and long-term transformation of fostering services and kinship care arrangements to ensure they are fit to tackle the challenges that will be faced over the next 20 years.
Children and young people deserve this opportunity to live in a safe, secure and stable home and the thousands of foster carers and kinship carers deserve the opportunity to give their care and commitment with the knowledge that they are valued and respected and that their central role is backed up with a range of appropriate support and resources.
We look forward to receiving your response to this consultation paper and working with you on the development of fostering services and kinship care arrangements for the future in Scotland.
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