The SNPGeverifieerd account

NS: "In keeping that promise, I look forward to robust challenge but also, I hope, to the cross party support, interest and engagement of this Parliament. I commend this statement."

NS: "That is the promise I make today to all those - past, present and future - who need our care."

NS: "We will deliver that change as quickly and as safely as possible - and starting now. And we will ensure that people with care experience remain at the heart of the process."

NS: "The Scottish Government is determined to take that opportunity. We will work with local authorities, care providers and all other relevant partners to make the necessary changes to care."

NS: "Today’s report makes the need for action overwhelmingly clear. It sets out the extent of our obligations. However it also gives us an opportunity – the opportunity to change thousands of young people’s futures for the better."

NS: "It is one that I take very seriously and very personally."

NS: "In fact, ensuring that they have an equal chance to succeed – that they benefit from the stable, loving relationships that so many of us took for granted when we were growing up – is one of the most important duties we have in public life."

NS: "Throughout the care review process I have been struck by the fact that – for ministers in particular but actually for all parliamentarians – the responsibility we owe to young people in care is a special one."

NS: "These groups will ensure we keep up the momentum established by the review. The Government aims to make progress in a matter of weeks and will update parliament regularly thereafter."

NS: "I can confirm that both groups will include people with experience of care. In fact, half of the members of the oversight body – including the Chair, who will be from outside the Scottish Government - will be people with experience of care."

NS: "The second is the creation of an independent oversight body."

NS: "The first is the establishment of a team to take the report and turn it into a detailed delivery plan. And although the report recognises that full implementation of its vision will take time, the process of change must and will start immediately."

NS: "But we will act straight away to implement ‘The Plan’ section of the report. There are two key immediate elements to this."

NS: "A radical overhaul is what the review demands and that is what we have a duty to deliver. I want to be clear, though, that we will continue to listen to care experienced voices who have additional ideas and suggestions to make. There is not and never will be a closed door."

NS: "But today’s report leaves no room for doubt that we need to do more - and do it more fundamentally, more systematically and more quickly."

NS: "As the review has been doing its work, the Scottish Government has already made some changes - for example, the introduction of the care experience bursary."