Who Cares? Scotland is an organizational member of IACD that supports care experienced people to have their voice heard and they make that happen in a number of ways. This month, they would like to highlight that it is Care Experienced Month. What is care experience? Check out their video below.
Who Cares? Scotland has also provided more information on the history of experienced care below — and you can read their newsletter on this exciting month by clicking here.
Care Experienced people have been a part of societies across the world for as long as can be remembered. We are calling for global recognition of their history through Care Experienced History Month.
Visit the official Care Experienced History Month website here.
How the state supports Care Experienced people is a conversation that has been ongoing for over 4000 years.
King Ur-Nammu, who ruled the Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur between 2112 – 2095 BC, is the first head of state in history that we can find who intervened in the lives of Care Experienced people. Under his codes of laws, he prevented orphans from being given to rich families. Since then, the way in which the state intervenes in the lives of Care Experienced people has continued into the modern-day care system children and young people experience today.
The history of Care Experienced people, however, is a story only half told.
We celebrate and grieve the Care Experienced people who have aided the advancement of humanity. However, society has failed to acknowledge the systemic, cultural and individual oppression that Care Experienced people have endured since records began.
In Scotland, our conversation about Care Experienced history came to focus on Care Day 2020, when the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and Scottish Labour party leader, Richard Leonard, joined Care Experienced people to learn about the history of Care Experienced people across the world.
They joined us in hearing the stories of the Sons of the Mars, the children of Symllum and Quarriers Village and the displaced Care Experienced people who were moved to the colonies as part of what former Prime Minister Gordon Brown described as a “Government-Induced Trafficking scheme.”
We know that the history of Care Experienced people stretches further than the borders and former colonies of the United Kingdom. We want people around the world to come together to start telling the full the story of Care Experienced history.
That’s why we are inviting activists from across the globe to commemorate the history of Care Experienced people in their country by joining us in support of the first ever Care Experienced History Month, in April 2021.
via https://www.whocaresscotland.org/what-we-do/campaigns/history-month/
