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  • New blog on early learning and childcare implementation

    Date: 8th July 2022
    Category: Social security and childcare
    Author:

    An aim of expanding early learning and childcare is to close the attainment gap and provide funded childcare to parents. Whilst supporting this aim, Graeme McAlister, Chief Executive of SCMA, also expresses concerns on how this planned expansion has been implemented across Scotland. Within this blog, Graeme explores what impact this has on the childminding workforce.

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  • Video and storybook to support children learning about protecting their privacy online

    Date: 9th December 2020
    Category: Social security and childcare, Equal protection from violence, Protection of privacy, Education, including vocational education
    Author: Council of Europe

    Kiko, the character within the storybook and video, discovers screens and the misuse of pictures online. The video and storybook aim to help parents and carers to protect children aged four to seven and to avoid their exposure to phones with video, photo cameras or webcams.

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  • Launch of children and COVID-19 research library

    Date: 19th November 2020
    Category: COVID-19, Mental health, Child poverty, Social security and childcare, Health and health services, Education, including vocational education
    Author: UNICEF

    The library contains global scientific research and evidence on children and the coronavirus pandemic, building upon UNCEF Innocenti’s existing COVID-19 rapid research response microsite.

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  • Toolkit for conversations on social rights

    Date: 12th February 2020
    Category: Child poverty, Social security and childcare
    Author:

    The ‘Talk.Act.Change.’ toolkit is designed to get people talking about social rights and the change they would like to see in their local area.

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  • Webinar on relationship-based social work

    Date: 11th September 2019
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Social security and childcare
    Author:

    This webinar, originally held in September 2019, explores the development of relationship-based practice in Local Authority children’s social work.

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  • Report - Early Learning and Childcare

    Date: 9th October 2018
    Category: Social security and childcare
    Author:

    Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) has launched a new report which gives an overview of the current state of professional childminding services in Scotland to deliver Early Learning and Childcare (ELC).

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  • CPAG Updated Factsheets

    Date: 7th February 2017
    Category: Social security and childcare
    Author: Child Poverty Action Group

    CPAG have produced factsheets on a wide range of topics, concentrating particularly on problem areas. All factsheets are available to view and print.

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  • Children’s Handbook Scotland

    Date: 13th December 2016
    Category: Social security and childcare
    Author: Child Poverty Action Group

    The Children's Handbook Scotland is a comprehensive guide to benefits and tax credits where children are living away from their parents, including children in kinship or foster care, children looked after by the local authority, and children at residential school, in residential care or in hospital.

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  • “From rhetoric to reality: improving outcomes for care leavers” - blog

    Date: 4th October 2016
    Category: Social security and childcare
    Author: Children and Young People's Centre for Justice

    It has been almost a year since the Scottish Care Leavers Covenant was published. In this blog, Debbie Nolan considers how we can make the promises made in the Covenant a reality, and improve outcomes for Scotland's care leavers.

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  • One year on - 2015 report on helping young people move on successfully

    Date: 20th September 2016
    Category: Social security and childcare
    Author: the Self-Directed Support (SDS) Consortium

    This report sets out the findings from a knowledge exchange project which focused on young people's transition from school to adult life against the backdrop of the Social Care (Self-Directed Support) (Scotland) Act (2013).

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  • Briefing sheet for social workers

    Date: 10th August 2016
    Category: Social security and childcare
    Author: Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration

    SCRA has produced a new briefing sheet to help new and recently qualified social workers help prepare children and young people for Hearings.

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