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CHILDREN 1ST supports Government’s plans for minimum price plan for alcohol
Scottish charity CHILDREN 1ST announced yesterday that they would be part of a group of children charities and organisations who would be submitting a statement to the Scottish Governement supporting the plans to put in place a minimum pricing structure for the sale of alcohol. The charities warn that excessive drinking by parents and guardians [...]
US experiment to save children from neglect arrives in Scotland
The Times reported today on a pioneering American programme that works to improve the lives of neglected children and save them from abuse is to be brought to Scotland for the first time. The scheme measures which seeks to encourage order into the home lives of children at risk, assesses whether parents can learn the [...]
Scotland child poverty still ‘unacceptably high’
In a new report entitled ‘Severe Child Poverty in Scotland 2010’, Save the Children have revealed that almost 10% of children in Scotland are living in families which have less than £33 a day to spend.
