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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Date: 19th July 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Scottish Government

In 2008, the Scottish Government published A Guide to Getting it right for every child, which explains the approach, especially the Values and Principles, Core Components and the National Practice Model.

Date: 7th July 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Audit Commission

Since 1990, a yearly government survey has indicated that between 9 and 10 per cent of 16 to 18 year olds is without a wage, schooling or training. This new study looks at the financial, personal and social cost of teenagers who are so-called NEET - not in education, employment or training.

Date: 1st July 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General measures of implementation
Author: Scottish Government

Getting it right for every child is a fundamental way of working that builds on research and practice evidence to help practitioners focus on what makes a positive difference for children and young people and act to deliver these improvements.

Date: 1st July 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Parenting across Scotland

In the autumn, Parenting across Scotland ran a telephone helpline survey of parents. PAS helpline partners, ParentLine Scotland, Capability Scotland, One Parent Families Scotland and Stepfamily Scotland asked callers about their experiences of parenting in the recession.

Date: 1st July 2010
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms
Author: Scottish Human Rights Commission

The Scottish Human Rights Commission supported the filming and production of a series of short films entitled 'The Ten Wee Commandments'. The films were made by young people in Glasgow and are inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Date: 1st July 2010
Category: Mental health
Author: Christina McMellon

This report highlights the findings from a consultation which was undertaken with specific groups of children and young people in order to inform the NHS Health Scotland draft framework for children and young people's mental health indicators.