Committee welcomes Children and Young People Bill

The Scottish Parliament’s Education and Culture Committee has published a report on the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill, in which it gives its support to the Bill but calls for increased detail from the Scottish Government to support the delivering of better outcomes for children.

The Bill contains a number of other measures to improve the lives of children in Scotland including proposals to increase the amount of free early learning and childcare to 600 hours, support for kinship carers and plans to implement Getting It Right for Every Child across Scotland.

The Committee’s scrutiny of the Bill has been informed by its work over the past two years in examining child protection issues. Its inquiries into educational attainment of looked after children and decision making on taking children into care have paved the way for its scrutiny of what is a wide-ranging Bill.

One member apparently dissented over the creation of a named person for every child and young person in Scotland, but the whole Committee agreed that more detail will be needed to make the positive measures contained within the Bill work in practice.

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