07/06/2021
Our final reports have been released today.
‘Shining a Light on Care’ includes recommendations to Scottish Government, ‘My Message for Scotland’ includes direct quotes shared with Forum members by survivors of historic institutional care in Scotland.
While some of the testimonies are hard to read, they will have been infinitely harder to tell, and our wish now is that the collective voice of those who have come forward is heard, acknowledged and respected so that together we may drive real change both for care experienced adults and for the children and young people who spend time in care in the future.
A PDF of each report is available to download from https://www.nationalconfidentialforum.org.uk/. Please read them and consider the positive steps you can take to support our recommendations to improve the experience for all people in care, regardless of age.
We would like to thank all those people who came forward to tell us about their experience of care and who made the publication of these reports possible.
Thanks to their bravery, the future care of children in Scotland will be improved.
The National Confidential Forum (NCF) has been set up as part of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014. The Scottish Government has legislated for and funded the NCF to show the importance given to the experiences of adults who were in institutional care as children. NCF is a Committee of th...
