Baseline report on Angus GIRFEC Learning Partnership for children affected by parental substance misuse (CAPSM)

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

A Baseline Report of the action research project in Angus to inform the development of Getting it right for every child and the work of the ADP/CPC to address the needs of Children Affected by Parental Substance Misuse (CAPSM).

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Participants, not pawns: Guidance on consulting with children and young people on school closures (and other significant changes)

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

This guidance has been launched to help local authorities ensure that their consultation with children and young people is meaningful, credible and commands the respect of children and young people, their parents/carers and the wider community.

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Children's Hearings Reform - The views of children in Scotland

Date: 1st February 2010
Category: Policies & procedures, Respect for the views of the child
Author: Children's Parliament

The Scottish Government Children's Hearings Reforms Team asked the Children's Parliament to speak with children who had been to a Children's Hearing to find out what that was like and what could be improved.

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Single Outcome Agreements for Scottish Local Government, 2009-10: A thematic analysis by the Children's Voluntary Sector Policy Officers' Network

Date: 4th January 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

This report looks at the extent to which children's issues have been addressed and priortised in Single Outcome Agreements for 2009-10. The review finds that there has been some improvement in relation to the treatment of children's issues since the first round of SOAs.

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Children's Hearings Reform and GIRFEC Paper

Date: 2nd December 2009
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

Written for the Children's Hearings Reform Conference in October 2009, a paper that sets out Getting it right for every child in the context of the Highland Pathfinder, and implications for the Children's Hearings System.

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Analysis and Getting it right for every child: A discussion paper

Date: 2nd December 2009
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

Analysis of information plays a vital role in the Getting it right for every child practice model of assessment, planning and review of children.

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Changing Professional Practice and Culture to Get it Right for Every Child

Date: 2nd November 2009
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

An evaluation report of the development and early implementation phases of Getting it right for every child in Highland 2006 - 2009.

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GIRFEC: Electronic information sharing workshop report

Date: 30th September 2009
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

A report on the issues discussed and suggested actions arising from three workshop events on information sharing involving front line practitioners representing all services for children.

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Fife Early Years Strategy 2009 - 2011

Date: 3rd August 2009
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Early Years Strategy Group

This is the first overarching Early Years Strategy for Fife. The strategy has been developed in line with the national Early Years Framework and links with Fife's Community Plan, Children's Services Plan and to Fife's single outcome agreement.

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Children’s Rights: Twenty-fifth Report of Session 2008–09

Date: 2nd February 2009
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: House of Commons

Surveys by UNICEF and others of the well-being of children and young people have found that the UK is ranked lower than almost all other industrialised countries. We have previously considered children's rights in the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) - which the UK ratified in 1991 - inquiries into human trafficking, the treatment of asylum seekers and the use of restraint in secure training centres, and our scrutiny of legislation. This Report follows up some of the issues we have raised previously in the light of the latest Concluding Observations of the UN Committee which monitors compliance with the UNCRC.

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