Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority's Policing Performance Committee with an overview of the SPA Corporate Parenting Plan.
Meeting
The publication discussed was referenced in the meeting below
Policing Performance Committee - 7 December 2022
Date : 07 December 2022
Location : online
Background
The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 defines corporate parenting as ‘the formal and local partnerships between all services responsible for working together to meet the needs of looked-after children, young people and care leavers’. Schedule 4 of the Act identifies both the Scottish Police Authority (‘the SPA’) and the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland as Corporate Parents.
The basic duties of a Corporate Parent are to:
Understand the issues that care experienced young people face and assess their needs
Promote the interests of care experienced young people and provide them with opportunities
Collaborate with other corporate parents and improve ways of working with care experienced young people.
A paper was presented to the Policing Performance Committee in December 2021. During this meeting Members endorsed the SPA’s first Corporate Parenting Plan. The plan was subsequently designed and published on the SPA’s website.
This report will highlight the work ongoing in relation to the Actions outlined in the Corporate Parenting Plan 2021-24.
