The Children (Care, Care Experience & Services Planning) (Scotland) Act 2026 is now law, but the real test will be delivery. Sandy Mayhew, Executive Director of Community Services, Kibble Kinship - care, foster care and family-based support Info ow.ly/gvQv50ZojYe

22 care-experienced young people died in Scotland in 2025. And now we’re being told that information surrounding deaths in state care is missing, withheld or redacted. Shock horror. Children’s services and local authorities withholding information. Who could possibly have seen that coming 🙄 We’ve spent YEARS talking about The Promise. Years of commitments, strategies, reports and promises of change. But at what point does everyone stop talking about what they intend to do and start looking at what is actually happening on the ground? Because The Promise has become another buzzword. Just like “lessons learned”. We hear the right words, we get the carefully worded statements, and we’re told things will be better. But where is the meaningful action? And when young people die, why are we still facing questions about missing information and redacted details? Care-experienced people deserve answers. Families deserve answers. And the public deserves to know whether the systems responsible for protecting vulnerable young people are actually being held accountable. You cannot promise change while refusing to be transparent about what is happening. We are tired of the talk. We are tired of the buzzwords. And we are tired of seeing commitments made while the reality on the ground tells a very different story. The Promise needs to mean something in practice, not just on paper. glasgowlive.co.uk/news/new-f…

2/ In this episode, Lucy and Charlotte dig into why the family courts are a frontline in the fight to halve violence against women and girls and Charlotte lays out her bold plan for reform, including a dedicated Family Justice Bill. Listen now on Spotify and Apple podcasts.

Journalists and legal bloggers can now report from family courts across England and Wales, with the children kept anonymous. More daylight. The same rules for every family. Edition 8, Article 10. Is it open enough? @IndexCensorship

For 15 years, I've campaigned for a better care system. We spend years pushing a boulder uphill, fighting for change. Just when we think we're reaching the top, it rolls straight back down. Different year. Different government. Same conversations. We have solutions. We have innovation. We have ideas we've never tried before. Yet we keep hearing the same old rhetoric. We could make care experience a protected characteristic. We could cap the profits private organisations make from vulnerable children. We could invest in prevention rather than continually paying for failure. So why haven't we? After 15 years, I'm tired of watching that boulder roll back down the hill. Because at the bottom are children and young people who don't have another 15 years to wait. We don't need another conversation about change. We need the courage to deliver it.

Private equity buys UK fertility clinics. PE controls social care, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentistry, child fostering. Usual business model. High debt, quality of care declines, prices increase, high profits. When things go wrong, NHS has to step in. thebusinessdesk.com/northwes…