Fiona Duncan: ‘We want to put love at the heart of Scotland’s care system’

The chair of the review into care in Scotland believes the system must be rebalanced to focus on supporting the child

Perhaps it should be, but “love” is not a word automatically associated with politics or policy-making. And so it felt significant when Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon, announcing a “root and branch” independent review of Scotland’s care system in October 2016, said: “Every young person deserves to be loved”.

Eighteen months later, the chair of that review, Fiona Duncan, has just completed the “discovery phase” of her inquiry, asking more than 800 children with experience of the care system, alongside another 800 paid and unpaid individuals who work with them, about the word “love”.

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