Family Nurse Partnership programme tests in Edinburgh

Date: 12th July 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The FNP programme is now being tested in Scotland and is open to all pregnant teenagers (aged 19 and under) having their first baby and living in Edinburgh.

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Scotland’s Young People Consult to Change Their Picture

Date: 12th July 2010
Category: Respect for the views of the child

The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) has just launched its biggest EVER youth consultation 'Picture the Change' and over the next 3 months are seeking to engage with a whopping 15,000 young people on the issues most important to them to create a brand new youth manifesto.

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Aberdeen City Council - Youth Activities Small Grants Fund

Date: 12th July 2010
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The aim of the Youth Activities Small Grants Fund is to support children and young people by enabling them to apply for a small amount of funding to help them develop and to take part in activities that might not otherwise be available for them.

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The James Caan Foundation

Date: 12th July 2010
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The James Caan Foundation was set up by Dragon's Den investor James Caan in 2006, and supports UK charities as well as education initiatives in Pakistan.

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Voluntary Health Scotland Manifesto - Help Us Shape the Agenda

Date: 12th July 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Voluntary Health Scotland plans to distil the broad aspirations and concerns of the sector into a Manifesto for Health to influence Scotland's political party health agendas in the run-up to the Scottish Elections in May 2011.

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Scottish Human Rights Commission Survey

Date: 12th July 2010
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

The Scottish Human Rights Commission are compiling a new database of organisations which help, campaign for, or support vulnerable people in all parts of the country. Can you help them complete the database by telling them about your organisation? Can you help them map the human rights third sector in Scotland?

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Golsoncott Foundation

Date: 9th July 2010
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The Golsoncott Foundation aims to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts generally and in particular the fine arts and music. This includes providing access to the arts for young people and developing new audiences.

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The Hedley Foundation

Date: 9th July 2010
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The Hedley Foundation is a charitable organisation which supports young people, the disabled and the terminally ill.

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Investing in Communities fund opens for business

Date: 9th July 2010
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The BIG Lottery Fund has launched its new Investing in Communities funding programme which aims to bring real improvements to communities, tackling need and addressing inequality.

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Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme Goes Ahead in Scotland

Date: 8th July 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Scottish Government has announced that it is going ahead with the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme, its equivalent of the Vetting and Barring Scheme recently put on ice elsewhere in the UK.

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