Introduction
Welcome to the June 2006 edition of the Scottish Executive’s Children, Young People and Social Care Group E:zine, Engage.
Services for children and young people, and for users of social care services more generally, are in the process of major modernisation. Whilst there is new legislation in progress and new policies in development that directly affect children's services, the changes we are working through, for example, to implement the recommendations of Changing Lives, the 21st Century review of social work, will have an impact across Scottish communities...Read more
Colin MacLean
Head of Children, Young People and Social Care Group
Next edition: October 2006
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Implementation of the 'Changing Lives' Report
Minister for Education and Young People, Peter Peacock delivered a speech at the Association of Directors of Social Work Conference on 11 May 2006. He outlined the opportunities and challenges ahead in turning the aspirations of Changing Lives into a new reality for the people who deliver and use social work services in Scotland.
Minister's speech 11 May 2006 [Word, 49KB]
The Changing Lives report [PDF, 2.1MB]