Call for papers for CELCIS 2014
The Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) is inviting practitioners, academics, policy makers and others working with looked after children to submit a proposal for a
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Tag: Looked After Children
Lack of guidance on keeping siblings in care together is ‘disturbing’
Chair of the all-party group on looked-after children David Melding hit out at admission there was no ‘specific guidance’ on issue A lack of guidance to promote the co-placement of
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Government pledge greater rights for young people in care
Hundreds of Scotland’s most vulnerable young people are to be given greater rights to continuing their care placement into early adulthood from next year, the Scottish Government has announced. From
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Northern Ireland fostering stretching services
A rise in the number of relatives applying to give foster care to vulnerable children in Northern Ireland has left official services stretched. Between 2009 and 2011 the volume of
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MSPs pressed to improve care system
Youngsters who have been in care are calling on MSPs to grant their Christmas wishes and make a number of key promises to those leaving the care system. They want
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Sexual exploitation of looked after children report published
The Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children In Scotland (CELCIS) have published a report on the sexual exploitation of looked after children in Scotland. The report, commissioned by the
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Exiling of children needs to end, says Cormac Russell
Caring for vulnerable youngsters by “exiling them to institutions” such as children’s homes needs to end, an expert has said. Rather than expecting professionals to “raise our most marginalised children”,
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Webwatch – Food for Thought
The routines and rituals that surround food – shopping, preparing, cooking, serving, cleaning up – are important parts of our lives, yet often we fail to recognise their symbolic or
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Hundreds of vulnerable children in care reported missing in Wales
Website WalesOnline has revealed details of an investigation in which they claim at least 221 looked after children were reported missing over the last two years Specific claims are that
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Webwatch – We can and must do better
Learning with Care, published by by HM Inspectors of Schools and the Social Work Service Inspectorate in 2001, highlighted the importance of improving the learning and development opportunities for those
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