March 08 – In the Press
- Behaviour
- Schools
- Families
- Additional support
- Young people looked after
- Mental health
- Substance misuse
- Childrens services
- Young peoples' voices
Behaviour
In this section you will find press stories which highlight current opinions in respect of Scotland’s education system.
Schools
In this section you will find press stories which highlight current opinions and developments in respect of Scotland’s education system.
Excellence in education
Fiona Hyslop has confirmed that the Schools of Ambition scheme is to be supported with £11.5 million over the next three years.
More support for school leavers
Vulnerable school leavers are to be offered support to make the transition into adulthood.
Importance of early intervention
Nine out of 10 of the most disillusioned and disruptive pupils in Scotland stayed on in education or found work after participating in the school-based programme xlerate with xl, according to independent research.
Families
In this section you will find new stories relating to the issues of families and young people who are disaffected or excluded from school.
Additional support
In this section you will find press stories which consider issues surrounding young people with additional support needs and approaches which are being implemented to improve and enhance their experience of school.
Neet group in decline
There are 24,000 young people in Scotland causing concern to the authorities because they are not in education, employment or training, and they are not the "homogeneous" group of 35,000 that is commonly supposed.
Improving services for vulnerable young people
A single national body is to be established bringing together the various bodies involved in supporting, organising and delivering the Children’s Hearings system, to improve the support given to vulnerable young people across Scotland.
Support for ‘at risk’ young people
Every council across Scotland will have the option of helping the most vulnerable and at risk young people with intensive support and electronically monitored movement restrictions.
End this cotton-wool culture
Children with special educational needs can be damaged by well- meaning attempts to boost their self-esteem
An apprenticeship where boys learn to become men
Young men are in crisis, according to one of the founders of Working Rite, a project that puts formal qualifications to one side in favour of an age-old rite of passage.
Kicking back against crime
Free football coaching and playing opportunities for more than 30,000 young people across Scotland are at the heart of a groundbreaking new initiative funded from the proceeds of crime over a three year period to 2011.
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Young people looked after
In this section you will find press stories relating to the education of young people who are looked after away from home.
Mental health
In this section you will find current stories relating to young people, mental health and education.
Substance misuse
In this section you will find current stories relating to the issue of substance misuse and young people who are disaffected or excluded from school.
Children’s services
In this section you will find news about the development of children’s services in Scotland.
Support package for third sector
Details of how more than £30m of support from the Third Sector Development Programme is to be allocated have been announced.
Young people’s voices
In this section you will find current stories reflecting young people’s opinions about issues which affect them.
