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Nov
19
Therapeutic Parenting in adoption
For Adoption Week Scotland this year, Fiona Aitken, Director of Adoption UK Scotland, looks at why therapeutic parenting is so important for children who have been adopted.
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Topic :
Adoption
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Health and Wellbeing
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Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Fiona Aitken
Sep
11
Reimagining the way we nurture and stay connected during COVID-19.
Food and other essential items are something that we have always had available for our young people in the Youth Team, Aberdeen but we were aware that when COVID – 19 hit that we would need to be more creative about how we made sure food was available for young people in a safe and structured way.
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Topic :
Corporate parenting
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Health and Wellbeing
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Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Megan Pirie
Mar
09
The Care Experienced Student Bursary – helping to change lives in East Renfrewshire
How the Care Experienced Bursary is making a difference in the lives of care experienced young people.
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Topic :
Corporate parenting
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Foster care
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Local authority
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Throughcare and aftercare
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Voices of young people
Author :
Katie Matthews
Aug
19
Are care leavers really more likely to go to prison than university?
First published by Exchange Wales on 14 August 2019.
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Topic :
Education
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Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Dr Neil Harrison
Jul
29
Young people in the care system deserve help to enter university
A version of this blog post was first published in The Times on 26 July 2019.
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Topic :
Education
,
Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Iain MacRitchie
Dec
19
Care experience at Christmas
In this blog post, Alastair Redpath, Co-Chair of the Independent Care Review’s Stigma Work Group, considers why Christmas might not be all joy and cheer for everyone but sees hope for change.
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Topic :
Stigma
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Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Alastair Redpath
Dec
05
Unconscious bias in the interview room
Joe Rankin of the Nevis Group talks about whether young people should tell future employers that they're care experienced. With video of James Calder.
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Topic :
REACH
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Throughcare and aftercare
,
Voices of young people
Author :
Joe Rankin
Dec
04
We can all learn about how young people can thrive in employment
Tommy McDade from Barnardo's Scotland talks about a programme that is supporting young people into the world of work for the first time.
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Topic :
Corporate parenting
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Throughcare and aftercare
,
Voices of young people
Author :
Tommy McDade
Dec
01
Labels are for clothes not people
Introducing issue 12 of REACH, which explores stigma, language, perception and the representation of care and care experience.
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Topic :
Corporate parenting
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Foster care
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Health and Wellbeing
,
Kinship care
,
Local authority
,
Looked after at home
,
Residential care
,
Throughcare and aftercare
,
Voices of young people
Author :
Claire Burns
Jun
20
Commitment must be matched by deeds, not just words
Kenny McGhee continues the conversation from Gordon Main’s recent blog Commitment, like love, is not enough.
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Topic :
Foster care
,
Kinship care
,
Residential care
,
Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Kenny McGhee
Mar
12
CHAMPS is changing lives
Maryellen Fegan chairs the Highland Champions (CHAMPS) Board. In this blog she describes what she believes it has achieved.
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Topic :
Corporate parenting
,
Throughcare and aftercare
,
Voices of young people
Author :
Maryellen Fegan
Dec
14
A fair financial deal for care experienced students
How the Student Support Review Group is trying to ensure care experienced students have a fair standard of living.
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Topic :
Corporate parenting
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Education
,
Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Dr Graham Connelly
Jul
12
Doctor Who and the care experienced new companion
Leanne Mattu, Research Associate at CELCIS, explores what Bill Potts’ character does and does not tell us about being in foster care
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Topic :
Education
,
Foster care
,
Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Leanne Mattu
Jun
27
One Moana is all we need…
Care leaver Helen Johnston compares her life to a Disney movie
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Topic :
Health and Wellbeing
,
Throughcare and aftercare
,
Voices of young people
Author :
Helen Johnston
Jun
14
I wanted to be a social work superhero
What does relational based practice look like in reality, for a busy statutory team?
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Topic :
Health and Wellbeing
,
Local authority
,
Throughcare and aftercare
,
Voices of young people
Author :
Jennifer McKean
May
11
Just do it!
Louise Martin, the University of Strathclyde’s Widening Access Support Officer, and Jennifer Lynch Care leaver talk about going to university.
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Topic :
Education
,
Throughcare and aftercare
,
Voices of young people
Author :
Louise Martin
Apr
03
Care leavers don't get sanctioned in Falkirk thanks to Moneywise
Norma Brown of Falkirk Council describes their Moneywise project and the difference it's making to the lives of care leavers in the area.
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Topic :
Corporate parenting
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Local authority
,
Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Norma Brown
Mar
31
The devil is in the detail
What the latest round of Scottish Government’s stats on looked after children do and don’t tell us
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Topic :
Corporate parenting
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Foster care
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Kinship care
,
Legislation
,
Local authority
,
Looked after at home
,
Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Feb
24
Young people's research at Barnardo's
Guest blogger Fiona Bennett of Barnardo's Scotland describes the Family Firm Action Research project.
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Topic :
Corporate parenting
,
Throughcare and aftercare
,
Voices of young people
Author :
Fiona Bennett, Barnardo's Scotland
Sep
29
The power of caring relationships
Kenny McGhee responds to the recent STV 'Who Cares' programme by exploring the need for genuine and caring relationships and removing barriers for looked after children and young people.
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Topic :
Health and Wellbeing
,
SIRCC
,
Throughcare and aftercare
Author :
Kenny McGhee
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Blog Topics
Voices of young people (43)
Residential care (36)
Health and Wellbeing (35)
Education (33)
Corporate parenting (28)
Local authority (27)
Foster care (26)
Throughcare and aftercare (24)
Child protection (23)
Permanence (18)
Legislation (14)
Kinship care (11)
Adoption (11)
Active implementation (9)
Children's hearings system (9)
Authors
Graham Connelly (9)
Claire Burns (8)
Kenny McGhee (6)
Chrissie Gale (5)
Linda O'Neill (4)
Judy Furnivall (4)
Lizzie Morton (4)
Jennifer Davidson (4)
Joanne McMeeking (3)
Louise Hill (3)
John Ryan (3)
Fiona Aitken (3)
Jillian Ingram (3)
Linda Davidson (2)
Carol Wassell (2)
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