In the Press
NEW - Vulnerable pupils face postcode lottery in classroom
6 Jan 2010, The Herald. A report from Strathclyde University finds that, overall, Scotland is one of the best countries in Europe for educating special needs pupils and those from minority groups. Yet families face a postcode lottery over the way vulnerable pupils are integrated into mainstream schools.
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NEW - Pupils with additional support needs take steadier steps into literacy
1 January 2010, TESS Scotland. A literacy programme for primary pupils in one of Scotland’s most deprived authorities, targeted at pupils with additional support needs, has seen pupils’ reading age rise by 11 months (in just under a year), compared with six months for a control group.
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NEW - Cuts ‘leaving special needs pupils behind’
30 Dec 2009, The Herald. Some of the most vulnerable pupils in Scottish schools are being left without proper classroom support because of local authority budget cuts, according to teachers’ leaders.
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Vulnerable under-12s ‘should be placed in care homes’
4 Dec 2009, The Herald. Vulnerable children aged under 12 should be housed in specialist care homes rather than in foster care, according to an investigation into residential childcare.
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Councils failing children with parents in jail – Barnardo’s
20 Oct 2009, Scotsman. Scottish councils are failing to help some of the country's most vulnerable young people according to Barnardo’s.
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Guidance staff need cognitive therapy tools
16 October 2009, TESS. Guidance teachers feel they are holding back “a wave of distress” and should be trained to deliver cognitive behaviour therapy to pupils, a cognitive behaviour researcher in Glasgow argues.
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Expand use of restorative justice to cut reoffending, urges report
29 October 2009, Children & Young People Now. Youth crime will fall dramatically if all young offenders face their victims a new report has claimed. The report, Making Amends: Restorative Youth Justice in Northern Ireland, found that 38 per cent of 10- to 17-year-olds involved in Northern Ireland's restorative justice process in 2006 reoffended within a year. This compares to a 71 per cent reoffending rate for those sent to prison that year. The Northern Ireland approach is based on offenders meeting their victims, recognising the consequences of their actions and making amends.
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Now it is the parents’ turn for training
23, Oct 2009, TESS. Classes for parents on raising confident children are to be run in 10 Edinburgh primaries beginning next term. “Raising Children with Confidence” is part of the city council’s Growing Confidence initiative.
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'Many girls' abused by boyfriends
1 Sept 2009, BBC News. A third of teenage girls suffer sexual abuse in a relationship and a quarter experience violence at the hands of their boyfriends, a survey suggests.
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