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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A Guide to Implementing GIRFEC: Messages from pathfinders and learning partners

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.

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Against the odds: Re-engaging young people in education, employment or training

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.

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Getting it right for every child resources

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.

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Families in the recession

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.

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The 10 Wee Commandments

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.

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Checking it out: A consultation with children and young people on a draft framework for children and young people’s mental health indicators

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.

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Physical Control in Care

Date: 1st July 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: National Offender Management Service

This document has been created by NOMS to train staff in safe methods of restraining young people in secure training centres.

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Guidance to help homeless children

Date: 29th June 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Scottish Government

New Statutory Guidance relating to meeting the best interests of children facing homelessness has been published by the Scottish Government.

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Media Coverage of Child Deaths in the UK: The Impact of Baby P: A Case for Influence?

Date: 8th June 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Susan Elsley

This briefing paper explores the extent to which recent UK media coverage has influenced policy on child death cases due to abuse and neglect, focusing on traditional print news coverage of the death of Peter Connelly, known as Baby P. It is informed by an exploration of newspaper reporting on the Baby P. Case.

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Accelerating action against child labour

Date: 1st June 2010
Category: Right to life, survival and development
Author: International Labour Organization

In 2006, the International Labor Organization (ILO) laid out a Global Action Plan designed to eliminate the worst forms of child labor by 2016. The plan represented the most ambitious agenda since the 1999 ILO Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention 182.

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Cotton wool kids safety myths demolished

Date: 1st June 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People

This guidance aims to tackle the risk averse culture that sees children miss out on outdoor activities because staff fear being sued or blamed if an accident occurs.

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