EXCLUSIVE: The former First Minister demanded 'leadership' if commitments to care-experienced young people are to be met by 2030.
Nicola Sturgeon has warned John Swinney’s Government to “raise” their game in helping the country’s most vulnerable children. She said everyone had to be “brutally honest” about the progress in keeping a “promise” she made to care-experienced young people.Sturgeon made The Promise five years ago to the day after an independent review into children in care.
In an article for the Record, she wrote that the Government had “shown leadership” on the care-experienced student bursary and ending the incarceration of young people in Polmont. She also welcomed a new allowance for foster and kinship carers. Local authorities are a key partner in delivering The Promise, but they have been accused in the past of not doing enough. Sturgeon wrote: “It means every council across Scotland setting, tracking and sharing the progress being made in their area. And it means collaborating - working together and pushing each other to go further, faster.”
Natalie Don, the SNP Minister for The Promise, defended the Government’s record: “All children deserve to grow up loved, safe and respected, and be supported to reach their full potential – that remains at the heart of the Scottish Government’s commitment to keeping the Promise as we reach the pivotal halfway point to 2030.
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