New podcast: Let’s Talk About… babies’ rights in Scotland

Date: 19th June 2023
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Starcatchers ' CEO Rhona Matheson chats children's rights and the progress of babies’ rights in Scotland with former Children's Commissioner, Bruce Adamson.

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Webinar recording: Voluntary National Reviews

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Civil Rights and Freedoms, COVID-19
Author: Child Rights Connect

On behalf of Child Rights Connect, we would like to thank you for joining the webinar “Sharing good practices on how to engage in Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)”. If you missed the webinar, you can find the recording here and the summary notes here .

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Implementation Guidance - A Strategy to Eliminate Violent Punishment of Children: Now Available in Eight Languages!

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Equal protection from violence, Protection from abuse or neglect, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

On behalf of End Corporal Punishment, we would like to share with you the Implementation Guidance – A Strategy to Eliminate Violent Punishment of Children, which is available in eight languages!

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Webinar recording: UNCRC – Supporting Families

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Child poverty, Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Right to life, survival and development, Best interests of the child
Author:

On behalf of Parenting across Scotland, we would like to thank you for joining the second webinar about the UNCRC and families titled “UNCRC – Supporting Families”.

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Publication for professionals working in the field of alternative care

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

SOS Children’s Villages publishes a variety of publications for professionals working in the field of alternative care.

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Launching of the Voices Toolkit

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

ProjectChange is excited to celebrate Care Day 2022 with the release of our voices Toolkit! The toolkit is a self-directed, free resource that aims to help people discover their voice and learn how to use it safely, confidently and purposefully.

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Webinar recording: The right for siblings be heard and to participate

Date: 12th November 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Watch a recording of a webinar on implementing new Scottish laws for brothers and sisters.

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Supporting good practice with care experienced children and young people in custody

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Children and Young People's Centre for Justice

The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), in collaboration with the Scottish Child Law Centre, has produced a new resource to support Scottish solicitors and practitioners with Good Practice Principles when representing care experienced children in police custody, to ensure their rights are upheld.

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Guidance for local authorities on supporting sibling contact

Date: 30th July 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Local authorities are now under a duty to support sibling contact. This national practice guidance is a resource that provides practical advice, based on research and evidence to aid the implementation of the rights siblings have.

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Overcoming barriers to graduation for Care Experienced young people

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

Following consultation with Care Experienced people who have graduated from college and university, Who Cares? Scotland found out their experiences of graduation, barriers they faced, and what they think would be helpful in overcoming these. This guide has been created for Corporate Parents to aid them to overcome these barriers.

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New resources help reframe care and care experience

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

Transform the current public narrative and perceptions around care and care experience by identifying and tackling challenging assumptions and attitudes using this resource guide.

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Examples of innovative frontline practice to support Care Experienced children and young people

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

Covid-19 has brought about new ways of working and innovative ideas. CELCIS has put together a range of examples of how people are meeting the challenge of responding to the effects of this public health emergency when supporting care experienced children and young people.

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Resources for college and university staff supporting student carers

Date: 1st March 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

This resource provides materials for colleges and universities to support staff undertaking the Going Higher and Going Further awards, in particular, the Carer Aware at University module.

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ME-WE Project releases manual on how to better support young carers

Date: 1st March 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

ME-WE has published a manual aiming to contribute to the development of an environment in which young carers are able to pursue their goals and thrive, in line with their rights under the UNCRC. It aims to fill the knowledge gap and targets stakeholders from different fields to inform multidisciplinary action to address the needs of young carers.

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Resources for young carers, their family and practitioners

Date: 12th February 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

These resources from Carers Trust Scotland aim to help young carers and family members speak about unpaid caring roles within the family and to reach out for support when it is needed.

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Connect's family engagement academy

Date: 28th January 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Connect has put together a variety of courses to support family engagement touching upon a range of topics such as: engagement in children’s learning, methods to influence family engagement, ways to work with parent councils and more!

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Media Ambassadors 2020 final film released

Date: 15th January 2021
Category: COVID-19, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Together with Media Education , a group of young carers have created an impactful film focusing on who young carers are, their experiences during lockdown and what support they need going forward.

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Childonomics: measuring the impacts of investing in children and families

Date: 9th December 2020
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Funding
Author: Eurochild

In the past five years, Eurochild has been working on combining economic discipline with children’s rights. Its conceptual framework and methodology to ‘measure the long-term social and economic return on investing in children and families’, together with the findings of its case studies from Romania and Malta, are now available on its website.

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Podcast series created by care experienced young people

Date: 28th October 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

The podcast started as a way of reflecting on experiences of Covid-19 and later developed into deep discussions about what it means to be care experienced. There are four episodes in our first season so far.

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New website for children on advocacy for children’s hearings

Date: 27th October 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

The website aims to help children find and access both support and representation from a children’s advocacy worker for children’s hearings.

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