'Moving on' from care into adulthood consultation

Closed 3 Oct 2024

Opened 11 Jul 2024

Contact

keepingthepromiseconsultations@gov.scot

Overview

The Scottish Government are committed to Keeping the Promise to all children and young people by 2030. This includes making sure that all children and young people with care experience are given the support they need to help them move on from care into adulthood and more independent living.

This consultation is about ensuring that young people leaving care and moving into adulthood have the right scaffolding of support available to ensure they thrive.

This consultation will build on the existing evidence base and delve deeper to uncover and understand:

  • the good practice already happening and having a positive impact on young people leaving care
  • what is missing in our scaffolding of support for young people leaving care
  • the potential solutions to the issues and challenges facing delivery partners and  young people leaving care
  • the best way to deliver the required changes, as highlighted in The Promise

The consultation is open to all members of the public. We are particularly keen to hear from those who have care experience, are a kinship or foster carer, are the birth family of a young person with care experience, or those who support young people with care experience professionally or otherwise during this time of transition in their lives.

Read the consultation paper. The consultation paper contains full background information for this consultation. You may find it useful to read or refer to while responding.

Useful information about responding to this consultation

As you complete your response, each page will provide the option to 'Save and come back later' at the bottom. This means you can save your progress and return to the consultation at any time before it closes. If you don't use this feature and leave the consultation midway through, your response will be lost.

Once you have submitted your response, you can enter your email address to get a pdf copy of your answers sent to you.

On the 'About You' page at the end of this consultation, organisations will have the opportunity to tell us more about their work and/or how their response was informed.

After the consultation has closed there will be a few months delay before any responses are published. This is because we must check any responses to be published abide by our Terms of Use.

A analysis report will usually be published some months after the consultation has closed. This report will summarise the findings based on all responses submitted. It will be published on the Scottish Government website and you may be notified about it if you choose to share your email address with us. You can also join our consulation mailing list where we regularly list newly published analysis reports (as well as new consultations).

Why your views matter

Your input will help us to take a deeper look at what is working well and can be built upon, as well as the issues facing care leavers.

We want you to play a key role in shaping the changes we need to deliver effective, caring and supportive services which meet the needs of young people leaving care when, where and how they need it. By equipping young people with the tools they need to make a happy and healthy transition to adulthood, Scotland can unlock a vast amount of talent and potential which will benefit everyone.

What happens next

Responses to the consultation will be published as soon as possible after the consultation closes. 

An independent analysis of the consultation responses will be conducted after the consultation closes. A report of this analysis will be published some months after the consultation has closed. 

Interests

  • Children and Families
  • Main hub