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Date: 20th June 2011
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
Delays in decision making and obtaining a permanent home can mean poorer outcomes for children. SCRA carried out research on the processes of care and permanency planning for looked after children in Scotland to identify areas for improvement.
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Date: 1st June 2011
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation
Author:
Children’s Rights Alliance for England
The publication makes the case for a consistent rights-based approach to all law, policy and practice affecting children, and explores in depth the implications of a children's rights approach to the family and to juvenile justice. It discusses the values and attitudes underpinning a children's rights framework and reports on good practice in a variety of settings.
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Date: 15th April 2011
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Shelter Scotland
Homelesschildren.org.uk is an online resource which provides expert guidance and advice for education professionals on measures they can take to mitigate the impact of homelessness on a child's schooldays.
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Date: 15th April 2011
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Shelter Scotland
This report highlights the fact that most young homeless people (84 per cent) had also run away over night before the age of 16. This is considerably higher than the national rate of running away which is estimated at 11 per cent.
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Date: 4th April 2011
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Children with disabilities
Author:
Parenting UK
Parentchannel.tv is a free online service designed to support and encourage parents and carers of children aged 5-19, with a collection of videos addressing a wide range of parenting topics.
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Date: 1st April 2011
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Parenting across Scotland
Parenting across Scotland would like Scotland to be the best place for families to bring up their children but at the moment, it's very far from being that. The Parenting across Scotland manifesto calls on the Scottish Government to 'family-proof' their policies, invest in the importance of parenting, ensure that families get the help they need when they need it, ensure that adequate childcare is available and that employers are family friendly.
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Date: 1st April 2011
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author:
Young Scot
Young Scot Access All Areas was a three-year inclusion project, which aimed to empower young people from ethnic minority, refugee, asylum seeking and faith groups to influence service provision in their local area, enhance access and promote inclusion.
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Date: 1st February 2011
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Citizens Advice Scotland
Citizens Advice Scotland's new report, Being Young Being Heard, outlines the impact of the recession on young people in Scotland in their own words. The report shows that the effect of the recession has been that too many young people have ended up in a place where their potential is going to waste.
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Date: 28th January 2011
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Scottish Government
The Scottish Government has published the responses received to the consultation on tackling child poverty in Scotland.
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Date: 10th November 2010
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
ChildLine
You can now watch up to nine ChildLine videos which have been translated into British Sign Language (BSL). The videos tackle issues such as bullying, neglect or family relationships.
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Date: 2nd November 2010
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Children's Rights Director for England
Before Care, the latest report by Children's Rights Director for England, Dr Roger Morgan, is a small but significant survey of 50 children, from different authorities across the country, who recently entered the care system. It provides first hand accounts of children's experiences before entering care and raises concerns about how ill informed and unprepared some children are when they come into care.
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Date: 1st November 2010
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Poverty Alliance
This guide has been produced to provide facts and figures alongside case studies of real experience for anyone who is looking for information on poverty in the UK.
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Date: 13th October 2010
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Citizens Advice Scotland
Citizens Advice Scotland have published a report highlighting the problems that face people who care for children who are part of their extended family.
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Date: 29th September 2010
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care, Policies & procedures
Author:
Scottish Government
This publication contains the latest statistics in relation to child protection, secure care accommodation and close support care accommodation.
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Date: 19th August 2010
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Scottish Government
This publication presents, for the first time, official figures about the distribution of income and relative poverty across Scotland at local authority area level.
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Date: 7th July 2010
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Audit Commission
Since 1990, a yearly government survey has indicated that between 9 and 10 per cent of 16 to 18 year olds is without a wage, schooling or training. This new study looks at the financial, personal and social cost of teenagers who are so-called NEET - not in education, employment or training.
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Date: 1st July 2010
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Parenting across Scotland
In the autumn, Parenting across Scotland ran a telephone helpline survey of parents. PAS helpline partners, ParentLine Scotland, Capability Scotland, One Parent Families Scotland and Stepfamily Scotland asked callers about their experiences of parenting in the recession.
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Date: 1st July 2010
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
National Offender Management Service
This document has been created by NOMS to train staff in safe methods of restraining young people in secure training centres.
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Date: 8th June 2010
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Susan Elsley
This briefing paper explores the extent to which recent UK media coverage has influenced policy on child death cases due to abuse and neglect, focusing on traditional print news coverage of the death of Peter Connelly, known as Baby P. It is informed by an exploration of newspaper reporting on the Baby P. Case.
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Date: 1st June 2010
Category:
Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:
Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People
This guidance aims to tackle the risk averse culture that sees children miss out on outdoor activities because staff fear being sued or blamed if an accident occurs.
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