Child Poverty (Scotland) Act The Act consists of the following key elements: Four statutory income targets to be met by 2030, based on the 2010 Act targets. Key difference: After Housing Costs Four statutory interim targets to be met by 2023, based on the same measures Duties on Scottish M...
Scotland Yard said it had reviewed Hannam’s time in the Met and found no evidence his actions had been influenced by any extremist ideology. He is currently suspended from duty. The 22-year-old had denied all the offences After the jury returned their verdict, the judge said Hannam had be...
(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...
The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 brings together aspects of family, child care and adoption law that affect children. The Act deliberately seeks to incorporate the 3 key principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) - i.e. non-discrimination (Article 2); a...
Several countries have started to look towards national policies focusing on childhood, the most prominent perhaps is Scotland and their governmental plan to give every child their best start in life (Scottish Government, 2010). We would like to apply the traditional principles of mental health ...
Woolfson, Heffernan, Paul, and Brown(Scotland)2009Young people's views of the child protection system in ScotlandExperiences of children and young people about the CPS investigation and about improvements that could make the CPS more effectiveSemi-structured interviews11 children (aged 12–17 years)...
Scotland has a tradition of public education second to none and libraries have been at the forefront of the disbursement of knowledge since the establishment of the Leadhills Miners Reading Society in Lanarkshire. Founded in 1741, it is the oldest subscription library in the British Isles. ...
The child labour prohibition and regulation act 1986 prohibits the work of children who are working in places where specific processes undertaken. To collect data from the child labourers, the researcher has prepared an Interview Schedule and has administered the same among fifty child labourers of...
Within the UK, this must be achieved within the context of policy that places on public bodies responsible for looked-after children a duty to ‘promote the upbringing of children by their families wherever consistent with their welfare’ (The Children Act, 1989; The Children (Scotland) Act, ...
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 ...