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  • Relative Value

    Date: 13th October 2010
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
    Author: Citizens Advice Scotland

    Citizens Advice Scotland have published a report highlighting the problems that face people who care for children who are part of their extended family.

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  • Valuing Children's Potential - How children's participation contributes to fighting poverty and social exclusion

    Date: 12th October 2010
    Category: Respect for the views of the child
    Author: Eurochild

    This publication demonstrates, through the description of concrete case studies, how children and young people can participate and get involved in decisions affecting their lives and how their participation can contribute to the fight against child poverty and social exclusion.

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  • 10th International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions Resources

    Date: 10th October 2010
    Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
    Author: Scottish Human Rights Commission

    Scotland was the host of the 10th International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions, which took place at the Scottish Parliament from 8 - 10 October 2010.

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  • Education Reforms

    Date: 4th October 2010
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author: Children & Young People Now

    The Government has embarked on a programme of reforms that could revolutionise the education system in England. Lauren Higgs explains the changes, and what they will mean for all those who work with children, young people and families.

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  • The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities : Will it help disabled children in the UK?

    Date: 4th October 2010
    Category: Children with disabilities
    Author: Zoe Picton - Howell

    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ("the Children's Convention"), ratified by the UK in December 1991, has arguably done little to improve the lives of the UK's estimated 700,000 children living with disability.

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  • Underage and Pregnant

    Date: 4th October 2010
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author: BBC Learning

    BBC Learning has compiled two resource packs featuring footage from the BBC Three documentary series, Underage and Pregnant. Both the Teacher's Pack (which includes curriculum based exercises) and the Youth Pack (designed for use in more informal settings) contain exercises that address different aspects of teenage pregnancy, sexual health, relationships and parenting.

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  • The Voluntary Sector and GIRFEC Implementation

    Date: 4th October 2010
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author: Pupil Inclusion Network Scotland

    PINS works to connect voluntary sector practitioners with developments and debates in Scottish education; with a particular focus on the most vulnerable, disaffected and excluded pupils.

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  • Self-directed Support: A National Strategy for Scotland

    Date: 4th October 2010
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
    Author: Scottish Government

    This report presents a 10 year strategy for self-directed support in Scotland which aims to set out and drive a cultural shift around the delivery of support that views people as equal citizens with rights and responsibilities.

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  • Disabled children: a legal handbook

    Date: 1st October 2010
    Category: Children with disabilities
    Author: Luke Clements and Janet Read

    Disabled children: a legal handbook is an authoritative, yet accessible, guide to the legal rights of disabled children and their families in England and Wales. The authors expertly navigate the many, often overlapping, sources of law, explaining the difference between what public bodies must do to support disabled children and that which they may do.

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  • How Fair is Britain?

    Date: 1st October 2010
    Category: Policies & procedures
    Author:

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published its first Triennial Review, 'How fair is Britain?', reporting on equality, human rights and good relations in 2010.

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  • Positive Images Toolkit

    Date: 1st October 2010
    Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
    Author: British Red Cross

    The Positive Images toolkit is an educational resource for teachers, youth workers and other educators that can be used to teach young people, aged 12 and over, about migration and development.

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  • 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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  • Young People and Children in Mental Health Services Report

    Date: 1st September 2010
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare
    Author: Mental Welfare Commission

    Since 2005 the Mental Welfare Commission has been monitoring what happens to children or young people under 18 if they are admitted to non-specialist settings, such as adult mental health or general paediatric wards, for the treatment of mental illness. The Commission made this a priority because of the duty placed on NHS Boards to provide age appropriate services and accommodation, and because of the particular vulnerability of young people with a mental illness.

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  • Child Health – Early Years FNP Core Briefing

    Date: 1st September 2010
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare
    Author: Family Nurse Partnership

    This briefing paper provides us with the evidence on FNP in England and implications for Scotland and describes the programme's background, benefits and outcomes.

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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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  • Relative poverty across Scottish Local Authorities

    Date: 19th August 2010
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
    Author: Scottish Government

    This publication presents, for the first time, official figures about the distribution of income and relative poverty across Scotland at local authority area level.

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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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  • Can we have a quick word?

    Date: 1st August 2010
    Category: Respect for the views of the child
    Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

    A RIGHT blether is an exciting national consultation to make sure children and young people's opinions about what is needed to improve and safeguard the quality of their lives are heard and acted upon by the people who make important decisions.

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