Looked After Children Education Forum
The LAC Education Forum was set up in late 2000 when a small group of education and social work professionals met in a Hamilton school to discuss issues surrounding the education of looked after children and young people. The purpose of this meeting was to network and share practice and experience.
Now the Forum has more than 200 members, drawn from:
- the majority of local authorities across Scotland
- the NHS
- Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education
- Scottish Institute for Residential Childcare
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Who Cares? Scotland
- the residential school sector
- Save the Children
- Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum
- The Big Step
- Strathcyde, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Abertay universities
- Scottish Government.
'The LAC Education Forum is about an open and mutual exchange of issues, information, ideas and blue sky thinking.
It enables members to give and receive in an environment where everyone is committed to best outcomes and works on the basis of improving practice and methods of achieving the best with and for children and young people.'
Liz Lafferty, Child Care Services Manager at South Lanarkshire Council
