Reducing the Time Needed to Find a Permanent Home for Looked-after Children

As an amendment to motion S4M-01197 in the name of Angela Constance (Reducing the Time Needed to Find a Permanent Home for Looked-after Children), insert at end “; calls on the Scottish Government to set out the timescales to achieve the actions set out in its response to the report and state how it will measure improvements for those children with the most complex needs and challenging problems; asks whether additional resources will be available to ensure that the report's recommendations are achieved, and draws attention to a new study by Citizens Advice Scotland that shows that two thirds of the 19 local authorities that it surveyed are still not paying kinship carers the same as foster carers.”