IT IS hard to lift your attention from the coronavirus crisis at the minute, but there are some things that must not get lost in our understandable preoccupation with Covid-19.

One such thing here in Scotland is the report of the independent care review, a root-and-branch review of Scotland’s care system. It is unique in the history of government reviews in that it has been driven by those with experience of care.

Over the past three years, the review team has listened to over 5,500 experiences. More than half the voices were of children and young people with experience of the care system, adults who had lived in care and different types of families. The remaining voices came from the paid and unpaid workforce.