The Sigrid Rausing Trust

Date: 1st November 2010
Category:

The Sigrid Rausing Trust promotes international human rights. The themes for grant funding are: Civil and Political Rights; Women's Rights; Minority Rights; Social Justice and Miscellaneous Fund.

Read more

Play Scotland welcomes Common Sense Approach to Health and Safety

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.

Read more

Future of the European ‘Youth in Action’ Programme

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.

Read more

The John Watson's Trust

Date: 29th October 2010
Category:

The Trust awards educational grants to under 21 year olds who are in a situation of disadvantage and/or have additional support needs.

Read more

The Woodward Charitable Trust

Date: 29th October 2010
Category:

Projects the Woodward Charitable Trust will consider funding should work with social and ethnic minority groups, including young people at risk of exclusion or isolation, refugees, asylum-seekers, gypsies and travellers, projects that promote integration and community cohesion will be favoured; prisoners and ex-offenders, homelessness, especially affecting young people and women, and covering facilities such as women's refuges, people experiencing violence or abuse, arts outreach work by local groups involving disadvantaged people and disability projects which can include rehabilitation, training or advocacy for people who are either physically disabled or learning disabled as well as help to improve employability.

Read more

Children’s Commissioner warns that early years implementation must improve urgently

Date: 26th October 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Scottish Government needs to set a clear lead and local authorities and health boards need to pool resources to intervene early with vulnerable or troubled families, otherwise, problems such as child neglect and behavioural difficulties will continue from one generation to the next.

Read more

Scottish child neglect survey throws up worrying results

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.

Read more

New agency to lead support for education in Scotland

Date: 18th October 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Michael Russell, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, has announced that HMIE and LTS will be brought together into a new executive agency - the Scottish Education Quality and Improvement Agency.

Read more

Child poverty: study shows fifth of UK children severely affected

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.

Read more

The Nihal Armstrong Trust

Date: 15th October 2010
Category:

The Nihal Armstrong Trust can provide children with disability essential pieces of equipment, communication aids or specific services that are not an element of statutory support from their local authority.

Read more