Coronavirus Act 2020

The Coronavirus Act was passed on the 25 March 2020 to help public bodies across the UK to provide an effective response to tackle the epidemic. The Act makes provision to increase the available health and social care workforce and ease the burden on front-line staff....

Home Compulsory Supervision Orders: Research

New research, commissioned by the Scottish Government and carried out by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA), looks at home Compulsory Supervision Orders (CSOs) in the Hearings System. A CSO is a legal document which means that the local...

Suicide Prevention Report

The National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group in Scotland has published its first annual report. The group was established in September 2018 to support the delivery of the Scotland’s new Suicide Prevention Action Plan Every Life Matters, published in August...

Access to Education for Care Experienced Students

The Scottish Government has announced that the upper-age limit of 26 will be removed from the Care Experienced Bursary next year, meaning that hundreds more care-experienced students will be eligible for the annual non-repayable bursary of £8,100. There has been a...

Improving the Secure Accommodation System

The findings of a research study commissioned by Social Care Wales, and conducted by the Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) at Cardiff University, have been published. The report, ‘The experiences and outcomes of children and...