Achieving a genuinely individualised education service in Scotland will be a long-term process that is likely to be difficult and expensive but not impossible, says Keir Bloomer.

A public housing estate in south-east Edinburgh is the site for the first feasibility study in Neighbourhood Mapping for Children's Safety (NMCS). Sarah Nelson and Norma Baldwin outline the initiative that takes a community approach to enhancing child protection.

This month Nicola Pay spoke to three organisations and a local authority about how they have been working to create safe and secure environments for children and young people.

Thirteen years ago in Chicago, USA, a project was developed that offered everyone, especially young people, the opportunity to invest in the city's future. Margaret Wright explains how it inspired her to bring the same concept to Scotland to help young people here become meaningfully involved in designing a future for the communities

100 years' seeking and solving the underlying causes of society's ills' – Children in Scotland reports on the Joseph Rowntree Trust's centenary conference.