The recommendation is contained in the agency's Extraordinary Lives report, which reviews services for looked-after children in Scotland. The report, published last week, also calls for all local authority chief executives to give annual reports on outcomes for children in care. About 200 young people and adults were consulted.
Robert Brown, deputy education minister, said: "The report shows that poor outcomes for looked-after children are anything but inevitable but that too many of these young people face disadvantage and hardship."
Education minister Peter Peacock is chairing a working group on the educational outcomes of looked-after children.
- www.swia.gov.uk.
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