Date: 8th October 2024
Category: General measures of implementation, Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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Befriending Week, the national campaign to celebrate and raise awareness of befriending, kicks off from 1st to 7th November 2024. Established in 2012 by Befriending Networks, the week highlights the positive impact befriending has on individuals and communities, helping to tackle isolation and build lasting connections.

Date: 8th October 2024
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation
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The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) has introduced ACAMH Learn, a free, online learning platform designed to support professionals working in child and adolescent mental health. The platform offers a wide range of evidence-based content, including videos, podcasts, lectures, and Q&As, from over 200 world-leading experts.

Date: 24th July 2024
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation
Author:

Mindroom is delighted to launch a series of free creative workshops for Care Experienced neurodivergent young people aged 14-18 this summer.

Date: 24th July 2024
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation
Author:

This charter has been created by children and young people living with health conditions in Scotland. It shows ten important health rights without specific order or numbering as they are all equally important in their rights.

Date: 24th June 2024
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation
Author: Parenting across Scotland

In order to understand the key issues, needs and priorities faced by parents and those in parenting roles in Scotland, Parenting Across Scotland issued an invitation to tender at the end of 2023. Following a competitive process, The Lines Between was selected to review evidence published throughout 2023 in Scotland.

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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Life Story is a method used to record the details about children’s history and personal development. It is a record of their life in words, pictures and photos made by the children with help from their Kinship Carer. This resource aims to support children to tell their story, help Kinship Carers form stronger bonds with the children they care for and help children feel safer and more secure.

Date: 9th February 2024
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Families Outside has produced child friendly resources to help care-experienced children and young people who have a sibling in prison to know - and access - their rights to sibling contact.

Date: 18th December 2023
Category: Looked after children, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

This research is about the significant impact on children and young people who are separated from siblings through care arrangement. It aims to address the gaps in knowledge around children and young people’s experience of sibling separation where their brother or sister is in prison or secure care.

Date: 13th November 2023
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

Who Cares? Scotland has just launched its lifelong campaign for Care Experienced people. Available data shows that Care Experienced people currently do not have the same life outcomes as their non Care Experienced peers. The Lifelong Rights Campaign is the commitment to change this.

Date: 5th October 2023
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

The Human Rights Consortium Scotland, with Who Cares? Scotland, has commissioned a new briefing paper on Care Experienced people and Scotland's new Human Rights Bill.

Date: 6th September 2023
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Child poverty, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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New research by One-Parent Families Scotland has revealed the detrimental financial and emotional impact of poverty on a family when a child enters care and if they return from care, as well as a gap in policy responses and service delivery. 

Date: 11th August 2023
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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What do children need when parents separate? The online training and coaching programme New Ways For Families is now available in the UK following a pilot exercise in Scotland conducted by Shared Parenting Scotland.

Date: 19th June 2023
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Starcatchers' CEO Rhona Matheson chats children's rights and the progress of babies’ rights in Scotland with former Children's Commissioner, Bruce Adamson.

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Civil Rights and Freedoms, COVID-19
Author: Child Rights Connect

On behalf of Child Rights Connect, we would like to thank you for joining the webinar “Sharing good practices on how to engage in Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)”. If you missed the webinar, you can find the recording here and the summary notes here.

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Equal protection from violence, Protection from abuse or neglect, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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On behalf of End Corporal Punishment, we would like to share with you the Implementation Guidance – A Strategy to Eliminate Violent Punishment of Children, which is available in eight languages!

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Child poverty, Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Right to life, survival and development, Best interests of the child
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On behalf of Parenting across Scotland, we would like to thank you for joining the second webinar about the UNCRC and families titled “UNCRC – Supporting Families”.

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

SOS Children’s Villages publishes a variety of publications for professionals working in the field of alternative care.

Date: 10th March 2022
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

ProjectChange is excited to celebrate Care Day 2022 with the release of our voices Toolkit! The toolkit is a self-directed, free resource that aims to help people discover their voice and learn how to use it safely, confidently and purposefully.

Date: 12th November 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Watch a recording of a webinar on implementing new Scottish laws for brothers and sisters.

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Children and Young People's Centre for Justice

The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), in collaboration with the Scottish Child Law Centre, has produced a new resource to support Scottish solicitors and practitioners with Good Practice Principles when representing care experienced children in police custody, to ensure their rights are upheld.