Fostering, adoption and looked-after children news

• Midlothian Council launches new initiative to strengthen trust between care-experienced young people and professionals

  Published on 24 Oct 2025

  A new initiative to help care-experienced young people feel safer & more connected to the professionals supporting them is launching during Care Experienced Week in Scotland.

• Midlothian Council marks major progress in Keeping The Promise

  Published on 24 Jun 2025

  Councillors praised the progress Midlothian is making in its commitment to Keep The Promise—a Scotland-wide pledge that care-experienced children and young people grow up loved, safe and respected.

• Find out more about fostering during Foster Care Fortnight

  Published on 7 May 2025

  Come and find out more about fostering during Foster Care Fortnight which runs from 12 – 25 of May. This is the UK’s biggest annual awareness raising campaign for fostering in the UK.

• Help us celebrate Kinship Care Week

  Published on 10 Mar 2025

  Midlothian Council is inviting valued carers to help celebrate Kinship Care Week, which runs from Monday 17 March to Friday 21 March.

• Fancy a chat and a cuppa with our fostering team?

  Published on 12 Feb 2025

  Midlothian Council is inviting local people to come and enjoy a ‘cuppa’ with the fostering team at the first drop-ins of the year.

• Council marks Foster Care Fortnight with new recruitment drive

  Published on 13 May 2024

  Midlothian Council is launching its new recruitment campaign for foster carers today, the start of Foster Care Fortnight.

• Midlothian foster carers now amongst the highest paid carers in Scotland

  Published on 26 Feb 2024

  Midlothian Council today agreed to a 5.5% increase in foster carers fees.

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  Care-experienced Council Leader urges people to consider fostering

  Published on 15 Aug 2023

  Midlothian Council Leader Councillor Kelly Parry said as a looked-after child and now a mum herself, she would urge anyone even vaguely considering fostering to go along to our next drop-in event.

• Council guarantees job interviews to care-experienced

  Published on 27 Jun 2023

  Care-experienced young people and adults will be guaranteed a job interview with Midlothian Council.

• Success for ground-breaking project to support care-experienced young people

  Published on 27 Jun 2023

  All of the care-experienced young people who have taken part in a ground-breaking Midlothian Council project since August 2021 are continuing to be supported to live independent, fulfilled lives.

• Positive inspection rating for council's care homes for young people

  Published on 1 Mar 2023

  Midlothian Council’s residential care homes for young people have been rated as ‘very good’ after an unannounced inspection by the Care Inspectorate.

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