Positive Images Toolkit

Date: 1st October 2010
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: British Red Cross

The Positive Images toolkit is an educational resource for teachers, youth workers and other educators that can be used to teach young people, aged 12 and over, about migration and development.

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Statistics Publication Notice: Health and Care Series: Children's Social Work Statistics 2009/10

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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Young People and Children in Mental Health Services Report

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Mental Welfare Commission

Since 2005 the Mental Welfare Commission has been monitoring what happens to children or young people under 18 if they are admitted to non-specialist settings, such as adult mental health or general paediatric wards, for the treatment of mental illness. The Commission made this a priority because of the duty placed on NHS Boards to provide age appropriate services and accommodation, and because of the particular vulnerability of young people with a mental illness.

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Child Health – Early Years FNP Core Briefing

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Family Nurse Partnership

This briefing paper provides us with the evidence on FNP in England and implications for Scotland and describes the programme's background, benefits and outcomes.

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Know Your Rights Game

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Children's Commissioner for Wales

This is an interactive game for children and young pepole on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

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TrueTube

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: CTVC

TrueTube is an online, multimedia resource which helps educators focus on hard to teach subjects. With a particular focus on English, RE, PSHE and Citizenship, TrueTube features over 70 hours of short-form, hard hitting pieces of media designed specifically to start discussion on a broad range of social topics: Faith and Conflict, Cyber Bullying, Human Rights, Gangs and Homelessness to name but a few.

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Relative poverty across Scottish Local Authorities

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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Children's Handbook Scotland

Date: 9th August 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Child Poverty Action Group

The Children's Handbook Scotland is the comprehensive guide to benefit and tax credits where children are living away from their parents.

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A Map of Advocacy across Scotland 2009 - 2010

Date: 2nd August 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance

This new edition includes information from all NHS Board and Local Authority Commissioners as well as from most advocacy organisations. It details statutory and non-statutory spending on advocacy in the 2009-2010 year as well as giving a picture of the numbers of people accessing advocacy during that period.

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Can we have a quick word?

Date: 1st August 2010
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

A RIGHT blether is an exciting national consultation to make sure children and young people's opinions about what is needed to improve and safeguard the quality of their lives are heard and acted upon by the people who make important decisions.

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