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Our news helps everyone working with and for children in need of care and protection, their families and carers, and with care leavers, to keep up to speed with what's going on in the sector, here in Scotland, and further afield.
Dramatic impact of mentoring programme
28 January 2020
The impact of the MCR Pathways’ mentoring programme on Scotland’s care-experienced young people.
Changes to how child witnesses give evidence comes into force
24 January 2020
New legislation has come into force in Scotland (20 January) which ensures that vulnerable child witnesses in serious criminal c…
Expert Group report on preventing harmful sexual behaviour
23 January 2020
The Expert Group on Preventing Sexual Offending Involving Children and Young People has today (23 January) published a report on…
Calls for more support for the mental health needs of care experienced children and young people
17 January 2020
Call for more to be done on mental and emotional health services as deaths of care experienced children and young people are rep…
Scottish Funding Council sets out national ambition
15 January 2020
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) has published (14 January 2020) a new National Ambition for Care-Experienced Students aimed a…