Findings and recommendations for the participation of young people with learning disabilities

Date: 20th September 2016
Category: Children with disabilities
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

Read about a new model to support practice aimed at improving disabled children's participation. in decision making.

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‘Childhood Obesity Strategy – Fundamentally Lacking in Strategy’

Date: 7th September 2016
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Nourish Scotland

The UK's Childhood Obesity Strategy was launched last week - in response, Nourish Scotland's Advocacy Manager Elli Kontorravdis has written a new blog article outlining where and why the strategy has fallen short of expectation for children in Scotland and the UK.

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Volunteering experiences for young people

Date: 7th September 2016
Category: Education, including vocational education
Author: BEMIS

BEMIS, in collaboration with a number of European partners has become part of the Validation System in Lifelong Learning Experiences of Youth Volunteering (VALLEY) project. The project aims to provide a new approach to promoting volunteering among young people.

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Communicating with young people with learning disabilities

Date: 6th September 2016
Category: Children with disabilities
Author: Children and Young People's Centre for Justice

Young people with learning disabilities are at risk of being disadvantaged in the youth justice and criminal justice systems if they do not have the right support. The CYCJ have provided an information sheet giving useful techniques for communication.

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Support for Families of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence

Date: 24th August 2016
Category: Children of prisoners
Author: Families Outside

'Picking up the pieces' is a new resource written specifically for families based on input from those who have lived through family members convicted of sexual offence - this resource is designed to help people cope with this experience.

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Bullying – a new guide for parents and carers

Date: 24th August 2016
Category: Bullying
Author:

This publication by respectme (Scotland's anti-bullying service) will look at bullying behaviour, both face to face and online. It aims to build practical skills to support children to deal with bullying behaviour.

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SPICe has published briefing on Named Person judgment

Date: 24th August 2016
Category: Protection of privacy
Author: Scottish Parliament

This briefing by SPICe (the Scottish Parliament Information Centre) summarises the Named Person judgement, the parliamentary passage of the legislation and looks briefly at other Scottish Parliament legislation that has been challenged in the courts.

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‘Value the Difference’ Resource Pack

Date: 24th August 2016
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities
Author: SALTO Cultural Diversity

Value the Difference is a resource pack for youth workers, containing information and tools to engage young people across many topics relating to cultural diversity.

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‘What does the law say about part-time education?’

Date: 24th August 2016
Category: Education, including vocational education
Author: Enquire

This new blog post from Enquire, Scotland's advice service for additional support for learning, explores the child's rights to a full-time education.

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National Guidance on Part 13: Support for Kinship Care published

Date: 10th August 2016
Category: Looked after children
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

New guidance to support the implementation of Part 13 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, and on the associated Kinship Care Assistance (Scotland) Order 2016 is now available.

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