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The cycle of observation, assessment and planning: a resource for early years practitioners

 

NEW Children in Scotland magazine – MAY ISSUE

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SAMPLE: Look, Listen, Act

- Duncan Dunlop, Who Cares? Scotland (Opens as PDF)

SAMPLE: All in it together - Scottish Childminding Association (Opens as PDF)


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Also with this issue:

Special supplement -

Delivering Curriculum for Excellence

PUBLICATION OFFER OF THE MONTH

man coverA Man's Place: fathers, workers and boys in Early Childhood Education and Care Services

Is masculinity the missing link in Early Childhood Education and Care services?

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Safeguarding children's futures: a guide to Powers of Attorney, Guardianship and Wills for professionals working with children and families in Scotland

 

 





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Referendum Survey

Thank you to all who took a minute to complete the survey.

The findings showed that:

63% have concerns about the potential impact of independence on their organisation

40% are already making contingency plans

30% have specific concerns about their organisation's financial viability following independence, with the same number considering the option of setting up as a separate Scottish entity,

If you have more to add, please drop an e-mail to our policy team – policy@childreninscotland.org.uk

The International School Meals Day website has launched! Follow on Twitter @IntSchoolMeals #ISMD2013

Early Years newsletter

The latest issue – number 6 – of our Early Years newsletter is available now.

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Annual Report

The Children in Scotland Annual Report 2011/12 is available.

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Member news

Post 16 Bill: Letter to Michael Russell MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning

Children in Scotland are happy to be singatories of the letter issued to Cabinet Secretary Michael Russell MSP, supporting calls for the definition of and measures to 'widen access' to include those with additional support needs.

Read the full letter to Mike Russell, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Learning

 

Third Sector Early Intervention Fund: Letter to Aileen Campbell MSP, Minister for Children and Young People

On Wednesday 3 April, Children in Scotland called upon the Scottish Government and the Big Lottery Fund to ensure clarity, transparency and an evaluation of the Third Sector Early Intervention Fund funding process expressing the concern and uncertainty felt by our members, and all those in the children's sector.
Read the full letter to Aileen Campbell, Minister for Children and Young People

 

Funding support

Following a recent meeting with Big Lottery Fund Scotland, members can now access useful links that provide information and advice  about making funding applications and finding sources of funding.

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Read our Members Briefing: Scotland – the best place to grow up: Children in Scotland’s response to the Scottish Government Debate held on 14 March 2013 – "Scotland – the best place to grow up."

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Read a series of Member Briefings on responses to the Children and Young People Bill

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Read our Member Briefing on teenage pregnancy

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Members’ Briefing: Commission on School Reform

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Read our new Member Briefing on Equality: Women and Work

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Events and Training

Advance notice
Every child, Every childhood: Children in Scotland Annual Conference 2013, 5-6 November 2013, in Paisley – in in association with Renfrewshire Council.

Upcoming training workshops

Kitbag for Families (half day pm), 29 May

Attachment Theory into Practice: Intermediate Level, 4 June

Healthy weight, healthy child, 11 June

Policy and Research news

Latest consultation responses

Local Government and Regeneration Committee Delivery of Regeneration in Scotland Inquiry

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Foreign Language Teaching in Primary Schools

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Measuring child poverty consultation

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Teenage pregnancy - Health and Sport Committee call for evidence

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Press and Media

Parliamentary group call for cross cutting impact assessment of welfare reform

At a discussion around welfare reform held yesterday (Thurs 16 May), Holyrood’s Cross Party Group on Children and Young People, organised by Children in Scotland and YouthLink Scotland, unanimously agreed the impact of the UK Government’s reforms need to be better, and more realistically, assessed in Scotland. Click here to read the press release in full  (opens as PDF)

 

Keeping childcare on the political agenda

Children in Scotland respond to the Scottish Parliamentary debate on childcare (8 May)

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Charity calls for more support for children from deprived areas

Children in Scotland respond to the results of the Scottish Government's Scottish Survey of Numeracy and Literacy (Literacy)  survey, calling for more to be done to close the gap between those children from deprived, and non deprived, areas.

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Warning over probationary tenancies

Children in Scotland have signed a letter, written by Shelter Scotland, opposing the planned introduction of probationary tenancies.

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Read Shelter Scotland's press release

Children and Young People Bill

More could be done for children's rights, and we need clarity on how ambitions will be delivered, say Children in Scotland

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