Consultation response: draft Children's Services (Scotland) Bill
By: Shelter Scotland Published: March 2007
Shelter welcomes the publication of the draft Children's Services Bill. From our experience of working with families and children experiencing bad housing and homelessness it is a very necessary piece of legislation.
Summary
Housing is fundamental to every part of a child's development. Children need a home to feel safe, keep warm and stay healthy: bad housing and homelessness can have a devastating impact in the short term and have long term consequences for their personal, social and educational development.
We welcome the focus on children being at the centre of services designed to help them, and we would like to see this new focus incorporate the housing needs of children and families as a priority
Our response goes on to highlight some concerns about the operation of the proposed legislation from our experience of working with families and children through housing support services.
