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Learning with Care:
The education of children looked after away from home by Local Authorities

Footnotes

¹ Section 16 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995-"the no order principle".

² Scotland’s Children: The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 Regulations and Guidance

³ For ease of expression, the term "children" as used in this report applies to those in the age range from birth to 18 years. Where it is clear from the context that reference is being made only to those children of secondary school age then the term young people is used.

⁴ Social Work Information and Review Group (2000), Local and National Information Requirements for Social Work: Joint Statement August 2000, (CoSLA, ADSW, Accounts Commission, Scottish Executive).

⁵ For ease of expression, the term "children" as used in this report applies to those in the age range from birth to 18 years. Where it is clear from the context that reference is being made only to those children of secondary school age then the term young people is used.

⁶ The figures for March 2000 were not available when this report was written.

⁷ Borland, M, Pearson, C, Hill, M, Tisdall, K and Bloomfield, I (1998) Education and Care Away from Home: A Review of Research, Policy and Practice. Scottish Council for Research in Education, Edinburgh.

⁸ Case histories have all been anonymised.

⁹ The generic terms "carers" is used to describe foster carers, residential staff and carers who are relatives or friends.

¹⁰ British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, Form E.

¹¹ The Looking After Children (LAC) materials were developed, originally in England and Wales, to provide a systematic approach to the assessment, care planning and review of looked after children using the 7 dimensions described in 3.2 above. They provide standardised case records which enable social workers and carers to identify actions required to meet children's assessed needs. The materials, now amended for Scottish use, are used, or about to be used, in all authorities in Scotland.

¹² This is the name of the placement agreement in the LAC materials.

¹³ Local authorities are required to review the care plans of looked after children within 6 weeks of their admission into care, 3 months thereafter and then every 6 months. Such reviews are denoted "reviews of the care plan" in this report to distinguish them from other review processes.

¹⁴ Guidance on issues concerning exclusion from school is contained in Circular 2/98 which is available from the Scottish Executive. An "informal" exclusion from school of a pupil other than in conformity with the terms of the Schools General (Scotland) Regulations has no statutory backing.

¹⁵ The term "legal capacity" is defined in the section 2 of the Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991. In practice most children aged 12 years or over will have the legal capacity in terms of the Act, although it may also hold in the case of younger children.

¹⁶ Scottish Qualifications Authority

¹⁷ Level C should be attainable in the course of P4-P6 by most pupils.

¹⁸ Level B should be attainable by some pupils in P3 or even earlier, but certainly by most pupils in P4.

¹⁹ Social Work Information and Review Group (2000), Local and National Information Requirements for Social Work: Joint Statement August 2000, (CoSLA, ADSW, Accounts Commission, Scottish Executive).

²⁰ Where no qualification is noted no award was obtained.

²¹ The Standard Grades were gained in the previous year.

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