Care reviews come once in a professional lifetime. It is 40 years since the 1989 Children Act, still the guiding light of our work in bleak times. Sure Start (1998) and Every Child Matters (2003) followed. These were the culmination of people making proactive proposals for years before. So too it has been with the recent Scottish care ‘review like no other’.
Our experience is that children in care and their professionals are idea rich. It is imperative that our collective ideas structure the care review making proactive proposals for its leadership, content and methods.
Professionals standing alongside children in care and care experienced people taking a stance of ‘nothing about us without us’. The care review is about ‘us’, who we are and what we do. If we don’t make known what is in our minds, then our minds will be made up for us as decisions are taken without ‘us’.
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