£7 million Drive To Improve Vulnerable Children’s Home

About £7 million is to be spent improving the homes of vulnerable children in care and on fostering, the Scottish Executive has announced. Residential units and schools across the country will share £5 million to improve decor and provide better facilities in an effort to encourage a learning environment.

Meanwhile, foster carers and kinship carers can apply for a share of £2 million to make it easier to look after the children in their care.

Carers can use the extra cash to buy essentials such as beds, a washing machine or additional bedroom furniture.

Robert Brown, the deputy education minister, will announce the funding later today at the Children in Care Conference in Edinburgh.