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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.
Access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
27 November 2019
Publication of the first in a series of reports highlighting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people with c…
Call for improved mental health provision in secure care and young offenders’ facilities
27 November 2019
MSPs on the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee are calling for better mental health support for young people ordered into e…
CELCIS's online courses reach 100,000 joiners
21 November 2019
A series of online courses on child care, offered by CELCIS and the University of Strathclyde, have amassed a total of 100,000 p…
Children's rights to be strengthened in Scotland
20 November 2019
Scotland will incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into law to the maximum extent possib…
The Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in Child and Youth Friendly Language
19 November 2019
SOS Children's Villages have published a child and youth friendly version of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children…