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Bob Doris MSP steps up pressure on Glasgow City Council To Deliver for kinship carers
Friday, 05 September 2008
Bob Doris MSP used his first speech of the new parliamentary term to step up the pressure on Glasgow City Council to meet their obligations to pay the kinship carers of looked after children direct financial payments on a par with foster carers. During the 'Getting It Right For Every Child' debate the Glasgow SNP MSP said that Glasgow City Council was 'not ready to deliver', 'unprepared' and had wrongly disputed the resources that were available to fund payments.

But Bob Doris read a joint statement from the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish local Authorities which said: "The Scottish Government and COSLA have agreed that sufficient resources have been included within the total financial settlement for local authorities to meet the commitment."

Bob Doris went onto say that "Glasgow City Council could have moved much more quickly to deliver for kinship carers in the city. Payments could and should have started by now."

He told other MSP's that the kinship carers he has met "provide a vital service for the children they care for, their families, the wider community and society in general. They deserve gratitude, respect and dignity."

Notes.

  1.  Glasgow City Council had no plans to implement their obligations to make direct payments to kinship carers until Bob Doris MSP arranged a meeting in March 2008 between himself, Councillor Phil Greene (SNP Council Kinship Care spokesperson), David Crawford (GCC Director of Social Work) and Cllr Steven Purcell. Following this a sub group was set up to prepare for delivery.

  2. From p5 of the concordat with Local Government
    • Kinship care – providing allowances for kinship carers of “looked after children” to treat them on an equivalent basis to foster carers.

The speech in full can be found here.
 
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