Supportive adults
facilitate meetings for local groups of
young people to share their experiences and
views.
National events are
developed, bringing young people together
from across Scotland.
Who Cares? Scotland works
with young people to develop its first
Charter of Rights.
After ten years:
Funding is received for 2 ‘Development Officers’ to
cover the whole of Scotland.
Further funding is secured resulting in
the growth of the organisation to 8 members of staff.
The organisation contributes to ‘Another Kind of Home’ (The
Skinner Report) and the development of The Children
(Scotland) Act.
The second version of the Charter of Rights is developed.
Further development of posts through
lottery funding.
Increased requests for individual advocacy see a shift in
the organisations’ focus from group work to individual work
with young people.
Organisation produces the ‘Feeling Safe –
The Views of Young People’ report.
Further funding secured and the organisation embarks on a
period of substantial growth increasing staff group from 13
to 30 over a 3 year period.
The Scottish Institute for Residential
Child Care is formed.(SIRCC).
As a SIRCC partner, Who Cares? Scotland receives funding for
a training and consultancy post to enable the incorporation
of the young people’s views into SIRCC’s delivery of
training and education.
The 25th Anniversary of the organisation.
A series of events are held, a photography project
undertaken and a substantial report produced.
Who Cares? Scotland organises its first professional
conference as a platform to launch a report called ‘Let’s
Face It! Care 2003 Young People Tell Us How It Is’.
The growth of the organisation continues.
Partnership funding (from Lloyds TSB and 2 Local
Authorities) creates 2 Drug and Alcohol project related
posts.
The Scottish Executive provides funding for a project
looking specifically at a young persons’ perspective of the
provision of secure accommodation in Scotland.
The organisation continues to produce publications. A
comprehensive list can be viewed within the publications
section of this site.
The organisation also continues to present the views of
children and young people at local and national seminars,
conferences and events.
