BBC Democracy Live - Scottish Parliament The Education and Culture Committee is taking evidence on its continuing inquiry into decision making on whether to take children into care. The inquiry focuses on the decision-making processes involved in determining whether a child should be removed from the family home and taken into care and whether these decision-making processes are working for children and their families. At the moment there are 16,000 looked-after children in Scotland. The committee will take evidence from Bernadette Monaghan from Children's Hearings Scotland; Hugh McNaughtan from the Children's Panel Chairmen's Group; Barbara Reid from the Children's Hearings Training Unit and Malcolm Schaffer from the Scottish Children's Reporter.