This partly biographical paper details the early years of the Scottish Civic Trust, outlining the key players in establishing the charity organisation, early successes and failures, and drawing on the experiences of the author who was employed there as Assistant Director in 1968.Gerrard...
In recent years participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland has grown from a handful of community-led processes to a movement supported by local and national government. This is epitomized by an agreement between the Scottish Government and... J Davies,M Arana-Catania,R Procter,... 被引量: 0发...
Early Years Scotland, therefore, urges the Scottish government to recognise the benefits of enabling parents and children to have the choice to be together, for at least part of their funded nursery entitlement. Many children in Scotland find that they are alreadyhugely behind their peers by the ...
In Scottish educational circles, it seems that early childhood ends on the day children start school. Over the past 20 years, there’s been growing recognition of the significance of early childhood experiences, in terms of both educational success and long-term health and wellbeing. In 2005, ...
Academics interviewed parents and children about a wide range of experiences every one to two years. The Growing Up in Scotland study is funded by the Scottish government and carried out by ScotCen Social Research. Want to keep reading for free? Register with Tes and you can read two free ...
Scottish Executive 被引量: 3发表: 2007年 Early years and childcare workforce training A summary of an analysis of responses to written consultations and workshop discussions which were part of the National Review of the Early Years and Childcare Workforce in Scotland Childcare,Children's Centres -...
Conflicting Concerns: The Political Context of Recent Embryo Research Policy in Britain a Scottish peer and a devout Catholic, compared such investigations with those conducted at Auschwitz: 'Like it or not, pleasing or offensive to the progressive children of the Enlightenment as it may be, I sa...
In most parts of Scotland, males working in early years are almost as rare as hen’s teeth. But, with the government planning to double the number of free nursery hours, thousands more staff are now having to be recruited - and men are needed to make up
The latter of these 'paradoxes' is partly explained by the general structure and historical form of the devolution 'settlement'; the former owes more to constraints on the Scottish Executive rooted in the way the 'space' for early years policy was occupied before devolution.Daniel...
Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist, philosopher, and author who is considered the father of modern economics. Smith argued against mercantilism and was a major proponent oflaissez-faireeconomic policies. In his first book, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", Smith proposed the idea ...