Looked after children
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| Corporate parent | The formal and local partnerships needed between all local authority departments and services, and associated agencies, who are responsible for working together to meet the needs of looked after children and young people and care leavers. Good parents make sure their children were well looked after, making progress at school, are healthy and enjoying activities and interests. As they grew older, they encourage them to become independent and support them, if they need it, in being part of the local community and accessing further education and training. The corporate parent must do the same, albeit that many more individual people will be involved in the corporate family than an ordinary family. There are lots of services and agencies which support the corporate parenting function, for example, local authorities' social work services and the Children's Hearing's system. |
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| Curriculum for Excellence | Curriculum for Excellence sets out the Scottish Government's vision for transforming Scottish education by 2007. It seeks to establish the values, purposes and principles of education in Scotland for children between the ages of 3 and 18. |