Scotland's care system for children and young people: subject profile 2025 update

Author: Lynne Currie

PDF Published: Monday 03 Mar 2025 (SB 25-10)

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- Introduction
- Care system reform
  - Implementing The Promise
  - Key actions so far
- Key legislation
- Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC)
- Care arrangements
  - Section 25 arrangements
  - Looked after at home
  - Kinship care
    
    Types of kinship care arrangements
    
    Local authority assistance for kinship carers
    
    Other financial support
  - Foster care
    
    The foster care process: approval and placement
    
    Foster care allowances
  - Adoption
    
    The adoption process
    
    Adoption support and leave
    
    Adoption leave
    
    Adoption pay
    
    Adoption allowances
  - Residential child care
  - Secure care
  - Support for care leavers
    
    Support in further and higher education
    
    Unaccompanied asylum seeking children
- Introduction
- Care system reform
- Key legislation
- Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC)
- Care arrangements
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