Together’s Spring seminars 2016 are coming!

Date: 19th January 2016
Category: Awareness-raising, Scotland-specific monitoring and reporting

Together is pleased to notify subscribers that we have successfully obtained a £2000 grant from the Castansa Trust in order to hold our annual State of Children's Rights report seminars for 2016.

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Helping ‘looked after children’ stay in touch with siblings

Date: 19th January 2016
Category: Care Experienced children

While the benefits of sibling contact are widely recognised, children and young people often encounter barriers when trying to keep in touch with family members after they are taken into care. Clan Childlaw's recent publication 'Promoting Sibling Contact for Looked After Children' examines how this situation can be improved.

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‘Keep Safe’ initiative goes national

Date: 19th January 2016
Category: Non-discrimination, Disabled children

Keep Safe works in partnership with Police Scotland and a network of local businesses to create 'Keep Safe' places for disabled, vulnerable, and elderly people when out and about in the community. In Mid-December, it was decided that this initiative would be rolled out across Scotland in 2016.

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Government responds to consultation on Named Person and Child’s Plan complaints procedure

Date: 12th January 2016
Category: Policies & procedures

On 12th January 2016 the Scottish Government published its response to the public consultation on complaints concerning functions relating to the Named Person and Child's Plan, which are covered in Part 4 and 5 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.

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Glasgow Councillor’s International Human Rights Day blog

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: General measures of implementation

As part of Unicef's blog series featuring partner local authorities to mark 2015's anniversary of the UNCRC on International Human Rights Day (10th December), Glasgow Councillor Stephen Curran released a blog on why local leaders must lead the way in advancing children's rights.

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Cost of the School Holidays report

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Child poverty, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Cost of the School Holidays study was designed to inform a Glasgow Life feasibility study exploring ways in which holiday provision could better meet the needs of families living in poverty and ensure uptake by children and young people from low income households.

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GIRFEC Guidance Final Draft Released

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: General measures of implementation

The final draft statutory guidance for the GIRFEC provisions in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 was released on 1 December.

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Faith, Ethnicity and Place as experienced by young people in Scotland

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

Research about the experiences of ethnic and religious minority young people was conducted by Newcastle, St Andrews and Edinburgh Universities from 2013-2015 and was recently published.

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‘Secure Care in Scotland, a scoping study’

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

'Secure Care in Scotland, a scoping study ' is published and is designed to help identify evidence gaps regarding the outcomes experienced by children and young people placed in secure care in Scotland.

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‘Permanence Planning for Looked After Children in Scotland’ - new research

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Care Experienced children

The Scottish Government commissioned the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration (SCRA) to carry out the research report - 'Permanence Planning and Decision Making for Looked After Children in Scotland', the aim of which was to assess progress in delivering improvements since the implementation of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.

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