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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Education of looked-after children in Scotland
An article examined policy and practice in relation to the education of looked-after children in Scotland. There was evidence of considerable infrastructural development, both in the looked-after children sector and
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