Free course: Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

Date: 12th February 2021
Category: Mental health
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This course will enable you to understand the influences on mental health in young children from birth to age five.

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Online safety toolkits

Date: 12th February 2021
Category: Access to appropriate information, Civil Rights and Freedoms
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These online safety toolkits contain short activities designed to be delivered by professionals across all education settings, covering themes such as: online friendships, sharing pictures and videos, live streaming and gaming.

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Resources for young carers, their family and practitioners

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

Date: 5th February 2021
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On the Engender is Scotland's feminist policy podcast, featuring the voices of experts from across Scotland's women's sector.

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Mind to walk podcast

Date: 5th February 2021
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Narrated by Edith Bowman and written by Glasgow-based meditation expert Dassini Cadwallender, Mind to Walk has been designed to be used on any walking route - whether it is around a housing estate or in a nearby woodland, listeners will finish feeling calmer and ready to enjoy their day.

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101 ways to play

Date: 5th February 2021
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This free play pack offers different ways in which organisations working with children and families, and parents themselves can stimulate children’s imagination, creativity and play time. Many ideas are low cost or free, can be carried out by children themselves, with very little adult support and are suitable for indoors or confined spaces.

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Domestic Abuse and Child Welfare: A practice guide for social workers

Date: 5th February 2021
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This guide aims to support social workers to respond effectively to domestic abuse, focusing on situations where children are involved.

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Children of the revolution: a special edition of Children in Scotland's Magazine examines how climate action now can save our future

Date: 5th February 2021
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Children in Scotland has produced a digital-only magazine edition which explores actions that must be taken to save our planet.

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New blog: Youth work is human rights work

Date: 29th January 2021
Category: Incorporation
Author: Youthlink Scotland

YouthLink’s Kevin Kane explains why strengthening the statutory basis of youth work is critical to ensure effective implementation of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) (Bill), as youth work can help children and young people to understand, promote and defend their rights.

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Get involved in Young Carer Action Day!

Date: 28th January 2021
Category: General measures of implementation
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Young Carer Action Day is taking place on 16 th March 2021. This year’s theme is Protect Young Carers’ Futures and will highlight the incredible skills young carers have developed through being an unpaid carer – including resilience, time-management and empathy. A range of free resources are now available online to help people get involved.

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