CHILDREN’S HEARINGS: PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY & PARTICIPATION

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Who Cares? Scotland- Children’s Hearings: privacy, confidentiality & participation

Take control: Make your voice 

 

Who Cares? Scotland has been commissioned by The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration to find out how privacy affects young people and their parents and carers’ participation in the Children’s Hearings System.

They aim to:

  • understand the impact of privacy and confidentiality on participation in the Children’s Hearings System
  • understand the relationship between advocacy and privacy and confidentiality 
  • find out how to improve communication in the Children’s Hearings System

Whether you have attended a children’s hearing as a child, young person or a parent, carer or foster carer, they would like to hear from you.

You can choose to take part by either: 

SCRA Workshop – information & consent

 

Education Scotland: Refreshed Narrative of CfE

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Education Scotland: Refreshed Narrative of CfE

Online interactive resource

On the 9th September 2019, Education Scotland published the ‘Refreshed Narrative on Scotland’s Curriculum’. 

It sets out Scotland’s approach, revisiting the initial CfE narrative and restating the central importance of the four capacities and the knowledge, skills and attributes that our children and young people need.

The refreshed narrative has been developed with input from practitioners and serves two broad purposes:

As a single point of entry to direct practitioners to a broad range of curriculum advice

It provides a process to facilitate both engagement with the core principles of CfE, and the development of practices to embed them.

The ‘narrative’ is an online interactive resource and provides clear links to further guidance and resources to support practitioner understanding and inspired implementation of CfE at all levels.

You can access the resource at: https://scotlandscurriculum.scot/

Safe Tea Campaign

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Safe Tea Campaign: Helping to reduce the number of ‘scald injuries’ to young children

The ‘SafeTea’ campaign was launched on October 16th  2019 on social media, TV and radio, and aims to reduce hot drink scalds and improve first aid for children’s burns. The target audience is parents, grandparents and carers of children under 5 across the UK.

The ‘Safe Tea’ campaign states:

‘The British are great tea drinkers, but this social habit has one undesirable consequence – the scalding of young children with hot liquids, usually pulled down over themselves. Across the UK, 30 young children attend hospital every day for treatment of hot drink scalds’

The ‘Safe Tea’ campaign recognises that many of these injuries are preventable. Through sharing key information on safe practice of hot drinks around small children and first aid advice on what to do in the event of an accident, the campaign aims to tackle this problem and reduce the number of children being scalded by hot drinks.

SafeTea Ambassadors are organisations and groups who support the aims of the campaign and agree to disseminate information about SafeTea to their networks , promote campaign messages on social media and encourage individuals to get involved by become supporters. 

Please visit the SafeTea website to see the resources available www.safetea.org.uk

SafeTea is a national evidence-based campaign targeting one of the commonest preventable injuries to young children- please get involved and make help a difference by becoming a SafeTea Ambassador.

Click here to download poster for sharing

Bookbug Training

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Bookbug Training Opportunities in Dingwall and Inverness

 

 Dingwall, Highland: Wednesday 13 November 2019, 10am–11:30am

Inverness, Highland: Thursday 21 November, 10am–11:30am

These training opportunities were recently promoted through the EARLY LEARNING AND CHILDCARE IN HIGHLAND BLOG – for further details and booking links, access the blog post at:

https://elchighland.com/2019/10/17/bookbug-explorer-training-opportunities-in-dingwall-and-inverness/

 

The Highland Third Sector Representation Pathway

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COMMITTEES/GROUPS/PARTNERSHIPS OPEN FOR NOMINATION FOR THIRD SECTOR REPRESENTATIVES

Click here for details of group guide and nomination form

The Highland Third Sector Representation Pathway

The following Committees/Groups/Partnerships are open for Third Sector Representatives nomination then selection on the 22nd of November at the Highland Third Sector Assembly.

To nominate for one or more of the opportunities below please email [email protected] with the following information clearly listed:

Name of the individual nominated:

Link/connection to the Third Sector in Highland: i.e. their paid or voluntary role(s)

A short bio outlining the skills relevant to the role being nominated for. (Maximum 150 words)

Nominations and the information provided will be circulated to the HTSI membership prior to the Assembly for democratic selection on the 22nd of November 2018 at the Highland Third Sector Assembly.

Please note that nominations must be returned to the HTSI no later than 5pm on the 31 October.

 

Safe Sleep Scotland Workshop

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Safe Sleep Scotland will be delivering a FREE ‘Safe Sleep’ education session for professionals in health and childcare on:

Thursday 7th November

5-6.30pm

CALA, Kintail House, Inverness IV2 3BW.

This session will help raise your awareness of how we can reduce the risks of sudden and unexpected death in infancy occurring and good practice to support a baby or young child’s sleep.

Click here to book online or call the CALA office on 01463 222569

SOSCN Regional Events

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SOSCN is pleased to confirm that the Scottish Government’s OSC team will be joining them at their regional events for OSC services to have the opportunity to help shape the next development stage of the National Framework for Out of School Care in Scotland.

The draft framework on Out of School Care sets out what the government knows about the out of school care sector in Scotland and asks questions about what the Scottish Government can do to support families in accessing high quality, flexible and affordable services which benefit children and parents and carers

Tuesday 5th November, 7 – 9pm @ Kintail House, Inverness IV2 3BW

Wednesday 6th November, 10am – 12.30pm @ Kintail House, Inverness IV2 3BW                               (Registration opens at 9.30am)

Please complete a booking form and return it to [email protected]

Click here to access further information and booking form