CPAG in Scotland Benefits Advice Line

Date: 9th November 2026
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
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Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland’s advice line is for any adviser or frontline support staff who do not charge for their services, including welfare rights advisers, student advisers, housing staff, health staff, family support staff, social workers and solicitors.

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Information about benefits in Scotland

Date: 9th November 2026
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
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CPAG in Scotland provides online information about all the devolved Scottish benefits and about reserved benefits for people in Scotland. All information is regularly updated and available to access online for free.

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Children’s Handbook Scotland

Date: 9th November 2026
Category: General measures of implementation
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The Children’s Handbook Scotland provides a complete guide to benefits where children are living away from their parents, including children in kinship or foster care, children looked after by the local authority, and children at residential school, in residential care or in hospital.

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Benefits for Students in Scotland

Date: 9th November 2026
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
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This Handbook is intended for students and those who advise students, or potential students, in Scotland about their entitlement to benefits. It outlines the benefit rules and focuses on issues relevant to students. It covers both further and higher education. This Handbook covers rules affecting students studying in Scotland who are eligible for support through Scottish funding bodies such as the Student Awards Agency Scotland. It does not cover the rules for students getting support from England, Wales or Northern Ireland, or elsewhere outside Scotland.

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Online benefits information to support for advisers in Scotland

Date: 9th November 2026
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
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CPAG in Scotland produces benefits entitlement information on a wide range of topics, concentrating particularly on problem areas. All this information is available for free online and is updated quarterly.

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Free benefits eLearning courses

Date: 9th November 2026
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
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CPAG in Scotland has developed a wide range of short eLearning courses, aimed at different groups of advisers or frontline support workers depending on their level of experience and interests.

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National Health Rights report 2026

Date: 21st October 2026
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
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The National Health Rights Report 2026 was launched on 2 nd October 2026 at the My Health, My Rights Conference, organised by Children’s Health Scotland. The report findings include that although children and young people in Scotland are becoming more aware of their health rights, many are still not experiencing these rights in practice.

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Neurodiversity Gateway Project

Date: 21st October 2026
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Salvesen Mindroom Centre

Mindroom, the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian have partnered on a project to improve access to support for neurodivergent children and young people (including those on assessment waiting lists). They are inviting parents and carers to join a friendly group discussion, online or in person, and help shape future digital support for families like yours. They would love your help!

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Free training to support children from Armed Forces families in Highland

Date: 21st October 2026
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
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This training will raise awareness of the support available to children and young people, with a focus on ensuring their rights are upheld when applying the Armed Forces Covenant. The session will help professionals consider how to provide appropriate support while making sure that children’s rights remain central to decisions affecting their lives.

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My Rights My Say Young Advisors’ views on inclusive and engaging learning

Date: 28th September 2026
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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The Young Advisors, a group of young people aged 12 to 21 with additional support needs, have shared their views on how education can become more inclusive and engaging.

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Free theatre resources for six- to 25-year-olds

Date: 28th September 2026
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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Wonder Fools is encouraging organisations working with children and young people to take advantage of its free Positive Stories for Negative Times theatre project for ages 6 to 25.

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Help shape the future of healthcare in Scotland

Date: 28th September 2026
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
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Our Future Health, the UK’s largest health research programme in partnership with the NHS is bringing mobile clinics to communities across Scotland to make it easier for people to take part in health research.

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Anti-Bullying Week 2026

Date: 28th September 2026
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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Anti-Bullying Week 2026 will take place from 16 th to 20 th November, with Scotland’s Anti-Bullying Service, respect me , launching a new film and animation based on this year’s theme, “Be Unique: Bullying is wrong. Let’s get along.”

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Children and young people in conflict with the law: policy, practice and legislation

Date: 7th September 2026
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms
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This new resource provides the latest information on policy, practice and laws for practitioners and managers who work with children and young people who offend or are at risk of offending.

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New edition of ‘Birth to 5 Matters’ guidance launched

Date: 10th August 2026
Category: Babies and early years
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A new and updated edition of ‘Birth to 5 Matters’, the non-statutory guidance for the early years sector, has been launched by the Early Years Coalition (EYC), a group of organisations working to support early years education.

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New resource: putting children’s rights at the heart of your service

Date: 10th August 2026
Category: General measures of implementation
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A new resource from the Improvement Service has been developed to help service managers understand where to start when considering children’s rights in the design and delivery of public services.

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“Welcome to the Highlands of Scotland” storybook for early years/early primary

Date: 10th August 2026
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
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A new storybook, titled ‘Welcome to the Highlands of Scotland’, has been co-created by children and young people from Drakies Primary School in Inverness. The children played an active role in creating the book, writing the story, designing the pages and producing the illustrations. The resource aims to help young children develop a sense of connection and belonging as they prepare to move into nursery or early primary school.

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New eLearning module available from CYCJ

Date: 10th August 2026
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CYCJ, in collaboration with the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, have launched a new eLearning module on tackling harmful sexual behaviour, which focuses on working with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. This resource will point you to ways of working, ideas and resources that you can integrate into your practice to ensure that the approach that you and your agency take for this issue are in line with principles, up to date and in line with current good practice. Places cost £30 per learner and can be combined with any of the modules on the platform.

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Child Maintenance support and resources

Date: 10th July 2026
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Two new resources from the Transforming Child Maintenance project aim to improve information and support for families across Scotland.

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Children at the centre: Handbook on child participation practices from violence prevention projects across Europe

Date: 10th July 2026
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A new handbook from Eurochild and Terre des hommes highlights how 48 civil society organisations across nine European countries are involving children in violence prevention work.

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