Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill - Individuals with care experience and those providing support

Overview

The Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill is a draft law which is being considered by the Education, Children and Young People Committee at the Scottish Parliament.

The Committee wants to understand what individuals with care experience (children, young people and adults), and those supporting them, think of the draft law.

If you are responding on behalf of an organisation or are an academic, please respond to the version of the call for views that is for organisations and academics.

If you are an individual with care experience, or have supported someone in care, please use the submission form below.

About this call for views

The Committee is not asking you to share your own care story. Members of the Committee know that care experienced people have been asked to do so many times. Instead, we are looking for your views on the changes set out in this draft law.

Your responses will be published on the Scottish Parliament’s website. This is important as it helps other people understand the feedback on the draft law the Committee has received.

When you are responding, please be careful not to mention any names or details of other people (e.g. other family members). If you do this, we may need to ask you to remove this information before we publish your responses.

Read more background information on the Bill’s webpage

How to contribute

Please answer the call for views by completing the submission form below.

You do not have to answer every question.

If you would prefer to send in a statement which does not cover any of the questions, please get in touch with the Committee at ecyp.committee@parliament.scot.

We welcome written views in English, Gaelic, Scots or any other language. 

The call for views closes on 15 August 2025.

Questions in the call for views

Analysis

The Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) will prepare a summary and analysis of responses received.

Confidentiality and publication of responses

We aim to publish all the submissions we receive.

The only exceptions are where we accept a confidential submission. If we agree to accept your submission on a confidential basis, this would mean your submission would not be published.

For further information about making a confidential submission, please contact the Clerks to the Committee via ecyp.committee@parliament.scot.

You can also make an anonymous submission. This means your submission would be published, but your name would not appear alongside it.

You can request for your submission to be anonymous on the first page of this call for views.