My Health, My Rights Charter

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

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New report: parenting evidence review Scotland

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.

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New resource: Life Story in kinship care

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.

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New child-friendly resources on sibling contact

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

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Staying Connected Project: Care-Experienced children and young people with a sibling in prison or secure accommodation

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

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Lifelong Rights for Care Experienced People: new report

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.

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New report on Care Experienced people and the Scottish Human Rights Bill

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.

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New Report: Poverty-proofing for families in or on the edges of care

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.

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Training: New ways for families

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.

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New podcast: Let’s Talk About… babies’ rights in Scotland

Date: 19th June 2023
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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Starcatchers ' CEO Rhona Matheson chats children's rights and the progress of babies’ rights in Scotland with former Children's Commissioner, Bruce Adamson.

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