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Date: 8th November 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
This website is for young people looking for confidential advice and information about health related issues and the challenges they might encounter during their teenage years.
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Date: 1st November 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Lord Young, the Prime Minister's adviser on health and safety law and practice, has published his report Common Sense, Common Safety which puts forward a series of policies for improving the perception of health and safety.
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Date: 29th October 2010
Category:
Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children, Respect for the views of the child, Non-discrimination, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disabled children, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The current European Commission youth programme - "Youth in Action" - will run until the end of 2013. An online public consultation has just been launched to collect views on how to best develop a future programme so as to ensure an adequate response to youth needs, challenges and expectations.
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Date: 18th October 2010
Category:
Access to appropriate information, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
More than half of children polled north of the border, many of them as young as eight years old, have seen signs that could indicate neglect in youngsters they know.
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Date: 18th October 2010
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
A fifth of seven-year-olds in the UK live in "severe poverty" with both parents together earning less than half the average national income, a major report reveals.
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Date: 27th September 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
HandsOnScotland is an online resource for anybody working with or caring for children and young people.
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Date: 30th August 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
This paper consults on future arrangements for the regulation of independent healthcare in Scotland and seeks views on the definition and scope of independent healthcare services that should be regulated.
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Date: 27th August 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
New lesson plans on homelessness and bad housing are now available for Early and First level pupils as part of Shelter Scotland's popular interactive classroom kit.
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Date: 27th August 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Thinkuknow is an education initiative which promotes internet safety for children and young people in the UK.
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Date: 25th August 2010
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The coalition government's first Budget has hit the poorest families hardest, a leading economic think tank has said.
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Date: 17th August 2010
Category:
Respect for the views of the child, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
A "non-graduate talent pool" would benefit business and at-risk young people.
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Date: 21st July 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The fund offers small-scale financial help for physically disabled young people in Scotland. It will fund anything that is not provided by statutory sources - so that could mean expenditure such as a washing machine, holiday expenses, clothing, computer hardware or specialised adapted equipment.
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Date: 12th July 2010
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The FNP programme is now being tested in Scotland and is open to all pregnant teenagers (aged 19 and under) having their first baby and living in Edinburgh.
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Date: 12th July 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Voluntary Health Scotland plans to distil the broad aspirations and concerns of the sector into a Manifesto for Health to influence Scotland's political party health agendas in the run-up to the Scottish Elections in May 2011.
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Date: 8th July 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The Scottish Government has announced that it is going ahead with the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme, its equivalent of the Vetting and Barring Scheme recently put on ice elsewhere in the UK.
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Date: 30th June 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The Four Acre Trust is inviting registered charities to apply for funding to support activities that give individuals - mainly children and young people - help in making the most of their lives. Eligible activities include: mentoring schemes; youth work in local communities; breaks and holidays for young people; school holiday activity schemes; adventure and other activity/training centres.
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Date: 16th June 2010
Category:
Access to appropriate information, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Consultation on draft guidance for practitioners working with children and young people to consider what local policy and procedures are required to effectively support those engaged in under-age sexual activity, in particular where there might be a child protection concern. The guidance reflects the principles set out by the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009.
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Date: 16th June 2010
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has published a slideset on Scotland's perspective on NICE public health guidance.
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Date: 16th June 2010
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
A new report by Health Scotland looks at what works in youth smoking prevention.
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Date: 16th June 2010
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
New draft guidance to help social workers, police, NHS staff and other professionals improve the protection of children at risk of abuse or neglect has been launched.
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