This is the list of documents available for the submission Care Experienced People (1) Falkirk Council recognises our collective responsibility as corporate parents and our commitment for the delivery of 'The Promise' that Scotland's children and young people will grow up loved, safe, and respected. (2) Council agrees to add 'Care Experienced' as a protected characteristic into our Equalities Impact Assessments where Care Experienced people is used to describe anyone who is currently, or has been, in the care system. For example, kinship care, looked after at home, foster care, residential care, secure homes, and adoption. (3) Council also agrees that when officers add 'Care Experienced' to the current statutory list of protected characteristics, consideration should be given to adapting the impact assessment process to integrate Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessments to advance compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and to report back to Executive. But 'Care Experienced' will be considered in all Impact Assessments from the date of Council agreeing this motion. (4) Council agrees to continually and proactively seek out and listen to the voices of care experience young people when developing new policies. (5) Notes that the addition of care experience as a protected characteristic would formally recognise the impact of any future decisions, services, policies might have on care experienced people. (6) To formally call upon all other bodies to treat care experience as a Protected Characteristic until such time as it may be introduced by legislation. Proposed by Councillor Paterson.

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