However, it is estimated that 26 per cent of children in Scotland will be living in poverty in 2023-24, with poverty set to rise rather than go down in the next few years, according to the JRF report. Although the new Scottish Child Payment, which will be introduced in 2...
It’s now sitting next to my desk, and I think I’m going to hang it in my office while the kids sojourn in Scotland. It’s the words of a song I sang to her repeatedly at bedtime when she was a child. It’s the words of a parent’s faith, hope, and blessing to a child,...
(2002). Voice of the child under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995: Giving due regard to children's views in all matters that affect them, Volume 1: Mapping Paper, Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Central Research Unit.Marshall, K., Tisdall...
unrealistic expectations of their child with measures such as the Developmental Expectation Questionnaire derived from the Vineland Social Maturity Index (Doll and McKnight, 1965); and studies which examined parental level of empathy toward the child with measures such as the Empathy Scales (Scotland, ...
(ECPAT) — based in Thailand; and PlayerThree gaming company — based in the UK and with consultancy from the University of Stirling in Scotland (hereafter the Partners) have developed a serious game (also interchangeably referred to as ‘simulations’ or ‘digital games’), as part of the ...
On child migration from Scotland, see Lynn Abrams, The Orphan Country: Children of Scotland’s Broken Homes from 1845 to the Present Day (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1998), pp. 122–61. 29. See, for example, Frank Prochaska, Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited ...
Woolfson, Heffernan, Paul, and Brown (Scotland) 2009 Young people's views of the child protection system in Scotland Experiences of children and young people about the CPS investigation and about improvements that could make the CPS more effective Semi-structured interviews 11 children (aged 12–17...
Public Health Scotland; 2020. Accessed December 11, 2020. http://healthscotland.scot/publications/covid-19-early-years-resilience-and-impact-survey-ceyris 49. Widnall E, Winstone L, Mars B, Haworth C, Kidger J. Young people's mental health during the covid-19 pandemic...
Scotland gave me the sacred space of nature to discover and dwell on it. I fell in love with the glens, the mountains and the lochs. This love brought back the wonder of my inner child and that sense of sacredness that my words may not be enough to describe. The nature of Scotland ...
But at the end of a three week trip in Scotland and the UK, I really just wanted to curl up at home and not have to worry about these damn things for the hundrendth time. So this was my shortcut. I told the waitress “Look I’m sorry to be a pain in the ass but I’ve got...