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Who Cares Scotland
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Two Scottish care workers struck off every week
Almost 300 workers caring for some of Scotland’s most vulnerable people have been struck off for inappropriate, abusive and
Councils spent £200m on profit-making residential care providers for children and young people
Scottish councils have given up to £200m to private firms to provide residential care for children and young people, despite
A record number of young people in care died last year
A record number of children and young people in care died last year when coronavirus restrictions were at their most
Adoption charities taking over Kinship carer service is ‘slap in the face’
Kinship carers – grandparents and other relatives who look after children when their birth parents cannot – claim they have been left
‘Tired of just surviving’: how care leavers are fighting back against austerity
Ten days after her 16th birthday Amy-Beth Miah decided she’d had enough of a care system that seemed designed
Searching for answers: Scots struggling to access records on their lives in care
Sitting in his car – outside the post office where he had collected a brown paper package containing the written records
Keep siblings together: Call for law to stop separation of brothers and sisters in care
They are too often ripped apart right when they need each other most, causing distress, pain and fracturing once rock-solid