Aberlour's Response to the Scottish Government's 'Future of Foster Care' Consultation

At Aberlour we have a deep commitment to making sure Scotland Keeps the Promise by 2030. We provide safe, loving and supportive services across Scotland for children and young people who often face complex challenges. These include residential children’s houses, mother and child recovery houses and many other services, working right across the spectrum from early intervention and prevention to supporting children and young people in and on the edges of care. Applying a rights-based approach, we are committed to raising awareness of the needs of those within the care-experience community who often face intersecting challenges in their lives, ensuring they can get the help and support they need and can access their rights.

We work together with other partners to beat poverty, disadvantage and discrimination. Giving children an equal chance and the best possible start in life is at the heart of everything we do. This is all a part of our defining mission: “to be brave for our children and young people.” To that end, we urge the Scottish Government to do the same. 

Throughout our consultation response, we have reflected the voices and highlighted the views of our children, young people and families from what they have told us. It is important to say that children and young people in our fostering services in the main did not engage with this consultation directly as many of them do not identify as being ‘care experienced’.