[PDF] Top 20 Can Scotland achieve more for looked after children?

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... with looked-after children to ensure that any support for literacy can continue through the library service; where possible, library staff and care staff should be trained ...even more ... See full document

... where children are placed away from home in another local authority area, were said to be ...in Scotland has a different way of dealing with this transition, and this was said to cause ...that ... See full document

... sure looked after children are included carry out, such as regular communication between everyone involved, the sharing of information and working alongside other agencies and parents or ...schools ... See full document

... of looked after children leave school aged 16 or under (Scottish Government, 2011a); by comparison, the percentage of all school leavers who left school aged 16 or under is ...of looked ... See full document

... ‘looked after’ in Scotland, which includes children looked after ‘at home’, is considerably broader than that used in legislation in England and Wales and Northern ...were ... See full document

... FOR LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN: POTENTIAL CHANGES TO THE LAW This is a complex area, involving several different legal processes, with associated legislation and ...Overall, looked after ... See full document

... of looked after children cared for in group settings in Scotland has been falling over a period of many years in comparison with increasing proportions of children living in foster and ... See full document

... arrangements can be put in place. More recently the LAC nurses have been co-located in social work offices in order to facilitate communication between ...of looked after young people to be ... See full document

... „Looked After Children‟ are those who are „looked after‟ in terms of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (the 1995 ...a Children‟s Hearing or placed by the local ... See full document

... for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) was established with the aim of providing a holistic approach to looked after ... See full document

... to children and young people on home supervision in different ...across Scotland; instead, most services provided support to specific populations, for example, those linked to a setting such as a school or ... See full document

... among children on the Child Protection Register (CPR), although a similar pattern of over- and under-representation has been observed (Chand, ...the Children in Need census (CiN) have also pointed to an ... See full document

... for Children and Young People’s Plans and other statutory ...all children and young people, including for looked after ...for looked after children and care leavers and to ... See full document

... The More Chances, More Choices policy articulated the then government’s commitment to reducing the proportion of young people most at risk of becoming disengaged socially and economically, the so-called ... See full document

... for looked after children provided information about each child and young people in their ...of Scotland as a ...they can rapidly screen large numbers of ... See full document

... of looked after young ...life can make a huge difference. Who Cares? Scotland and Save the Children (Ritchie, 2003) surveyed the perceptions of young people on their educational ... See full document

... of children requiring public ...the Looked After Child becomes the subject in terms of classification, control and ...which children requiring public care are isolated as anomalies, how the ... See full document

... the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act ...that children and young people looked after at home are likely to have additional needs or where we find that their needs may not be ... See full document

... these children can be actively or passively excluded from services which might otherwise be ...beneficial. Children on home supervision fare worse in regard to contact and support from a social ... See full document