Statistics Publication Notice: Health and Care Series: Children's Social Work Statistics 2009/10

Date: 29th September 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

This publication contains the latest statistics in relation to child protection, secure care accommodation and close support care accommodation.

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Know Your Rights Game

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Children's Commissioner for Wales

This is an interactive game for children and young pepole on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

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TrueTube

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: CTVC

TrueTube is an online, multimedia resource which helps educators focus on hard to teach subjects. With a particular focus on English, RE, PSHE and Citizenship, TrueTube features over 70 hours of short-form, hard hitting pieces of media designed specifically to start discussion on a broad range of social topics: Faith and Conflict, Cyber Bullying, Human Rights, Gangs and Homelessness to name but a few.

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Children's Handbook Scotland

Date: 9th August 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Child Poverty Action Group

The Children's Handbook Scotland is the comprehensive guide to benefit and tax credits where children are living away from their parents.

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A Map of Advocacy across Scotland 2009 - 2010

Date: 2nd August 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance

This new edition includes information from all NHS Board and Local Authority Commissioners as well as from most advocacy organisations. It details statutory and non-statutory spending on advocacy in the 2009-2010 year as well as giving a picture of the numbers of people accessing advocacy during that period.

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'Advocacy makes you feel brave': Advocacy support for children and young people in Scotland

Date: 1st June 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Susan Elsley

This report presents the findings from a scoping study into advocacy support for children and young people in Scotland.

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How to Make Presentations Accessible to All

Date: 24th May 2010
Category: Children with disabilities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures
Author: World Wide Web Consortium

Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? Be careful not to leave out information for some people in your audience. For example, if you say 'you can read it on the slide', you are probably excluding people who cannot see the slide.

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Fife Children's Rights Strategy and Action Plan for 2010 - 11

Date: 2nd April 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Fife Voluntary Sector Children’s Forum

Fife is the first Local Authority to develop a Children's Rights Strategy and Action Plan. This was done in partnership with children and young people involving Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People - Tam Baillie - who came to Fife to consult with children.

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A Brief Guide to Easy Read

Date: 1st April 2010
Category: Children with disabilities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Accessible Information Forum

This guide will tell you more about what Easy Read means, give you some top tips on how to do it and provide links to other useful publications which will give you more detailed information. The guide also lists some organisations who can produce your documents in an easy read format.

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A Right Blether

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures, UK 1st periodic review
Author: Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People

Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People has created five 'rights workshops' with creative extras to help children and young people understand more about their rights.

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