Under - age Sexual Activity - Meeting the Needs of Children and Young People and Identifying Child Protection Concerns

Date: 3rd December 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Scottish Government

The Scottish Government's National Child Protection Guidance and the Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) approach provides a national framework for agencies and practitioners at local level to draw up and agree on their ways of working to promote the welfare and safety of children and young people.

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EACH Child and Young Person’s Health Matters: who looks after those in care when they are ill?

Date: 1st November 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Action for Sick Children Scotland

Over the past three years Action for Sick Children (Scotland)'s Children and Young People in and leaving Care project has examined the healthcare needs and issues of children and young people in care. The development of a toolkit to help meet these needs is now complete with the addition of six podcast interviews with relevant healthcare professionals, examining their role and promoting best practice.

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Child Health Rights, What Do You Know? Young Parents Speak Out

Date: 1st November 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Action for Sick Children Scotland

The Tayside Child Healthcare Rights Project DVD 'Child Health Rights, What do You Know? Young Parents Speak Out' gives information to young parents on how to access healthcare for their children. The DVD is an excellent training resource for those working with young parents.

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Poverty Information Resource Guide

Date: 1st November 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Poverty Alliance

This guide has been produced to provide facts and figures alongside case studies of real experience for anyone who is looking for information on poverty in the UK.

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Underage and Pregnant

Date: 4th October 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: BBC Learning

BBC Learning has compiled two resource packs featuring footage from the BBC Three documentary series, Underage and Pregnant. Both the Teacher's Pack (which includes curriculum based exercises) and the Youth Pack (designed for use in more informal settings) contain exercises that address different aspects of teenage pregnancy, sexual health, relationships and parenting.

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Self-directed Support: A National Strategy for Scotland

Date: 4th October 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Author: Scottish Government

This report presents a 10 year strategy for self-directed support in Scotland which aims to set out and drive a cultural shift around the delivery of support that views people as equal citizens with rights and responsibilities.

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Young People and Children in Mental Health Services Report

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Mental Welfare Commission

Since 2005 the Mental Welfare Commission has been monitoring what happens to children or young people under 18 if they are admitted to non-specialist settings, such as adult mental health or general paediatric wards, for the treatment of mental illness. The Commission made this a priority because of the duty placed on NHS Boards to provide age appropriate services and accommodation, and because of the particular vulnerability of young people with a mental illness.

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Child Health – Early Years FNP Core Briefing

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Family Nurse Partnership

This briefing paper provides us with the evidence on FNP in England and implications for Scotland and describes the programme's background, benefits and outcomes.

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Relative poverty across Scottish Local Authorities

Date: 19th August 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Scottish Government

This publication presents, for the first time, official figures about the distribution of income and relative poverty across Scotland at local authority area level.

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Getting it right for every child resources

Date: 1st July 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General measures of implementation
Author: Scottish Government

Getting it right for every child is a fundamental way of working that builds on research and practice evidence to help practitioners focus on what makes a positive difference for children and young people and act to deliver these improvements.

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