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Sticks and Stones
Every week brings new surprises. This week, I met the new Director of The Why Not? Trust – no, not the night club in Edinburgh, but a subsidiary of Care Visions currently focused on support for continuing relationships for young people coming out of care. This includes, for example, support for young people held in […]
Keeping the Promise
Today marks a year since the Independent Care Review published its far-reaching recommendations to transform Care in Scotland and published “The Promise” to improve radically the lives and futures of young people in care and on the edges of care. A recurring theme across all strands of the review was that what children need most […]
Practice Learning
An area of development within Families Outside has been in Social Work Practice Learning. In August 2019, we appointed a Practice Learning Coordinator, who is working with Universities across Scotland to provide practice learning placements for social work students within all three of our regional teams. The Practice Learning Coordinator also has practice teaching responsibilities […]
The First 6 months of MyTime Scotland
I can’t believe it has been 6 months, time really does fly! Building on the feedback and momentum from the consultation ‘Conversation Cafes’ the first MyTime Peer Support Group started in March 2019. It has been a busy, challenging, rewarding and exciting time for the group coming together, meeting me and the other group members […]
#NoAddressInThePress
“They don’t care about my life, or my children’s lives, all they want to do is get a headline.” Family Member, Dundee. When a family member goes to prison the family feel like they’ve hit rock bottom, but when their address is printed in the press they have a whole new situation to deal with. […]
