Category: Child Rights, Family Environment, Education, Health and Welfare, Civil Rights

Sleep Action, formerly known as Sleep Scotland, is the UK's oldest sleep charity. We aim to ensure everyone is able to thrive through healthy sleep by providing information, education, and behavioural support at no cost to families of children and young people with additional needs and/or battling with debilitating effects of chronic sleep deprivation living in Scotland. We underpin and complement the work of health and social care providers and charities, who also benefit from our work through training. Because there is no health and wellbeing without sleep.

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Category: Family Environment

Staf is Scotland’s national membership organisation for all of those involved in the lives of young people leaving care. Our vision is that the wellbeing and success of young people leaving care across Scotland is indistinguishable from that of theirs peers in the general population. In everything we do we live our values: We Listen, We Care, We Love.

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Starcatchers is a pioneering organisation which specialises in performances and creativity for babies, toddlers and young children under the age of 5 in Scotland.

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Category: Child Rights, Health and Welfare, Education

The British Psychological Society is the representative body for psychology and psychologists throughout the UK. Our work, and the work of our members, helps to influence and develop a psychological approach to policy-making that puts people first. A registered charity with a total membership of around 60,000 – more than 4,000 of whom are in Scotland – our members include HCPC-registered practising psychologists, researchers, academics and teachers in universities and schools.

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The Destiny project is a registered mental health charity, The plan being to provide support and advocacy to communities that endure high deprivation. The destiny project prides itself as collaborating organization and wishes to work with other agencies large and small, the aim is to provide as wide a range of services as possible, particularly for the most vulnerable in the community. The only constraint is our imagination, the creativity we can unleash, and our ability to reach and maintain high standards.

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Category: Family Environment, Child Rights, Special Protection

The Fostering Network is the UK's leading fostering charity and membership organisation for foster carers and fostering services. We run forums, organise training, and provide support to foster carers, including through our free advice line, Fosterline. We work with children and young people through our young people's advisory board in Scotland, and we meet regularly with Scottish Government officials to inform and influence their policy.

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Category: Child Rights

Inspiring Children's Futures is a partnership at the University of Strathclyde with a collective vision of ensuring that children and young people have what they need to reach their full potential, particularly those facing adversity. Children’s human rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development guide our efforts as we work to reveal and resolve the structural barriers preventing children from fulfilling their potential. We work with a range of interdisciplinary partners to develop the evidence-base and strengthen the political will to support effective policy and practice responses for children, especially those who are most likely to be ‘left behind’.

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Category: Family Environment, Child Rights, Education, Health and Welfare, Special Protection, Civil Rights

The Poverty Alliance is Scotland’s anti-poverty network. Together with our members, we influence policy and practice, support communities to challenge poverty, provide evidence through research and build public support for the solutions to tackle poverty. Becoming a member adds your voice to Scotland’s anti-poverty movement, provides access to the latest briefings, reports, and publications on poverty in Scotland, attendance at exclusive members meetings and networking events and opportunities to contribute to our policy positions and consultation responses. Our members include grassroots community groups, academics, large national NGOs, voluntary organisations, statutory organisations, trade unions, and faith groups. You can learn more here: Join us - The Poverty Alliance

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Category: Education

The Sound Lab helps young people and other communities to fulfil their creative potential through free music, media, digital and arts tuition. We offer a blend of face-to-face and online music tuition workshops across any creative discipline. ​

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Category: Family Environment, Education

The Yard is a purpose built indoor and outdoor adventure playground for children and young people with disabilities.

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