Cost of the School Holidays report

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Child poverty, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Cost of the School Holidays study was designed to inform a Glasgow Life feasibility study exploring ways in which holiday provision could better meet the needs of families living in poverty and ensure uptake by children and young people from low income households.

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GIRFEC Guidance Final Draft Released

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: General measures of implementation

The final draft statutory guidance for the GIRFEC provisions in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 was released on 1 December.

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Faith, Ethnicity and Place as experienced by young people in Scotland

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

Research about the experiences of ethnic and religious minority young people was conducted by Newcastle, St Andrews and Edinburgh Universities from 2013-2015 and was recently published.

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‘Secure Care in Scotland, a scoping study’

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

'Secure Care in Scotland, a scoping study ' is published and is designed to help identify evidence gaps regarding the outcomes experienced by children and young people placed in secure care in Scotland.

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‘Permanence Planning for Looked After Children in Scotland’ - new research

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Care Experienced children

The Scottish Government commissioned the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration (SCRA) to carry out the research report - 'Permanence Planning and Decision Making for Looked After Children in Scotland', the aim of which was to assess progress in delivering improvements since the implementation of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.

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New Human Trafficking and Exploitation blog

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Children in situations of exploitation, Special protection measures

The Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015 received Royal Assent on 4 November 2015. One of the things the Act does is to place a duty on Scottish Ministers to publish a Strategy to tackle human trafficking and exploitation. Neil Rennick, Director for Justice in the Scottish Government has published a blog providing discussion on this.

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All Kids Count: new campaign

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Child poverty

The UK government plans to give up on its own targets to end child poverty. The Welfare Reform and Work Bill will scrap the child poverty targets and introduce new measures of 'life chances' instead, including worklessness and educational attainment. The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) have launched a new campaign with Rebecca, a mum of two who describes how, despite her and her husband both working full-time, they still struggle. She's started a petition asking the House of Lords to hold the government to account on child poverty. Nearly 50,000 people have signed the petition, you can also do so below.

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2015 Eurochild Report on the European Semester

Date: 6th January 2016
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

Eurochild carried out the assessment of the 2015 European Semester with the help of its member organisations. The work draws on the experience of the past four years' (2011 - 2014) analysis of the National Reform Programmes (NRPs) of EU Member States, with an extended scope in 2015. In the 2015 analysis, Eurochild particularly assessed the extent to which the European Commission 'Recommendation on Investing in Children: Breaking the cycle of disadvantage' (2013) has been implemented across the EU and whether the European Semester process is helping or hindering the achievement of positive outcomes for children.

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Electoral Future of Scotland

Date: 5th January 2016
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

In July 2014, Together responded to the Scottish Government's consultation on Scotland's electoral future - these views have been included in the summary of responses.

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The Scottish Child Care Protection Committees Forum (SCPCCF) has been re-named Child Protection Committees Scotland (CPC Scotland)

Date: 8th December 2015
Category: Protection from abuse or neglect

CPC Scotland promotes policy and best practice for the protection of children across Scotland. It plays a leading role in the development and promotion of agreed common standards and effective procedures. The group informs national child protection policy, working alongside the Scottish Government in order to make a positive difference to the lives of vulnerable children and young people.

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