Taking an 'ultra-careful' approach has led to Aberdeenshire having the highest number of children referred for inquiries into suspected abuse in Scotland, according to Aberdeenshire Council. Child...
Teachers and parents can learn how to help children be more active by watching a video produced by Dundee City Council. Mike Watson, minister for tourism, culture and sport, said, 'The video is an...
Inter-agency working in Scotland was the agenda for a two-day conference, 'Joining up children's services', held last wek in Aberdeen and organised by Children in Scotland. An integrated electronic...
A final report reviewing the social care workforce was launched by the care services minister Ian Lewis and children's minister Parmjit Dhanda last week. The Options for Excellence review was jointly...
On a Europe-wide horizon, the child you care for could be a contender in a drawing competition and be invited to travel to Strasbourg for the European Parliament's 'Pet Night' next year. The European...
Children in Edinburgh are are being eased into primary school with the help of health visitors, family learning co-ordinators, a community dietician and play development co-ordinators as part of the...
(Photograph) - Eight-year-old Harry Withers joined other disabled children, parents and health professionals in celebrating the tenth anniversary of Scope's Peto Andras Centre in Islington, London,...
Collaborative working is the theme of the seventh national conference of I CAN, the national educational charity for children who have speech and language difficulties. The conference, Collaboration...
Martin McGuinness has presented awards totalling Pounds 300,000 to a number of summer schools on behalf of the New Opportunity Fund's Out of School Hours Learning Programme. He said, 'Out-of-...
Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in...