Keeping The Promise to all our children, young people, adults and families

Scaffolding

We will help to make sure the people who support children and families have all the help they need to do the best job they can

Supporting the people who support you

We know there are lots of people in different services who work to protect and support children, young people and families with care experience. These services work together to provide you with the support you need, when you need it.

We will:

• Set up a national social work agency so that you will receive the same support you need wherever you live in Scotland
• Ensure that the social workers that support you have the right support and training to help them do their jobs
• Change the children's hearing system to make it more child friendly and focused on your rights
• Make sure the care system is built around what matters to you
• Help ensure that those who support children and adults understand the impact of what has happened to you in your life and how this may affect how you might see things

A Review of the Children's Hearing System is happening.

It is listening to children and families with experience of the Children's Hearings System to help shape how the system can work better. This will tell us its ideas for change in 2023

Information about you

We know that as you grow up there is a lot of information gathered about you but also that you need to tell your story too many times

We will:

• Help to ensure that when children speak, they are listened to by adults; and adults include children in decisions that affect them
• Make sure that children can bring the people they trust into the places where decisions about them are made and that decisions about children and their family are based on what children want and need
• Improve the way information about you is held and used so that children don't have to retell their story over and over again