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It’s World Social Work Day 🙌 Shout out to all the brilliant SW staff doing everything they can to safeguard & support communities.

It’s our birthday!!🎉🎉

Today we’re celebrating 150 years of Aberlour with all our incredible children, young people, families, and staff across Scotland🥳

Happy 150th Birthday Aberlour! 🎂
#Aberlour150 #AberlourChildrensCharity

Picture of child and quote “it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults” by Frederick Douglass

Failing to invest in childhoods results in devastating future cost - latest study estimates £1tn in lost pay

And let’s be clear; the cost to the human being is beyond numbers and life lasting

The Govt is pointing in right direction: but must go further faster

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Why resilience won’t solve the mental health crisis among young people A focus on resilience risks shifting responsibility for mental health onto those affected, rather than calling out factors contributing to poor mental health.

"Focusing on resilience as a solution to the mental health crisis risks shifting responsibility for mental health onto those affected, rather than calling out and changing policies and systems contributing to poor mental health"

theconversation.com/why-resilien...

Himself & myself are off soon to Spain. SO a 🧵 of Scottish foremothers who fought fascism during the Civil War 1936-9. Cos fighting facism is important. This is Annie Murray Knight - a nurse. Her stories of Italian planes dropping sweet tins with bombs inside, which blew up kids, are harrowing. /1

Killed women count: 80 women allegedly killed by men in UK in 2024 Throughout the year, the Guardian aimed to report on every woman whose death has led to a man being charged Throughout 2024, the Guardian aimed to report on every woman allegedly killed by a man, drawing on the work of campaigns such as Counting Dead…

Killed women count: 80 women allegedly killed by men in UK in 2024

Child’s drawing of a reindeer in Christmas lights

Child’s drawing of an angel in Christmas lights

Child’s drawing of a gingerbread man in Christmas lights

Child’s drawing of a dinosaur/godzilla wearing fairy lights rendered in Christmas lights

This has made me smile so much my face is aching:

the Christmas lights in the Scottish town of Newburgh are designed by its children-there’s a competition to design a new one each year. They’re made by the same co. that makes the lights for Blackpool, the Shard & Champs-Élysées:

All thoughts with #GiselePelicot today. An icon of epic proportions. May justice be done 🙏

Tonight! BBC Scotland is channel 162 on Virgin and 187 on Sky in England, Wales and NI

Happy 45th birthday to London Calling. Released by The Clash on this day in 1979
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Voice of the Infant: best practice guidelines and infant pledge Co-produced by a short-life working group, on behalf of the Infant Mental Health Implementation and Advisory Group, which is part of the Scottish Government’s Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Progra...

🎄Day 14🎄parent-infant relationships advent calendar.

Co-production with children is important when designing practice & policy. Babies have the same rights to be heard as other children (UNCRC). This guide from Scottish government helps address some practicalities

www.gov.scot/publications...

Eat Haggis A range of contemporary Scottish gifts.

I have just received some lovely Christmas cards I ordered from @eat-haggis.bsky.social. Worth a wee gander on the websites www.eathaggis.com & www.holeinmypocket.com if you like supporting local creatives.

Centre for Young Lives report warns poverty and hardship are preventing some children from attending school amid big increases in persistent and severe absence among children receiving Free School Mea... Anne Longfield, Executive Chair of the Centre for Young Lives think tank, is today (Tuesday December 3rd) publishing a new report, ‘Too Skint for School’, examining the link between poverty and school...

“We can’t tackle attendance if we don’t tackle poverty”

In a country as wealthy as ours no child or their family should be going without the essentials. No Government wishing to reduce school absence can ignore the role that poverty plays in driving it www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...

Could not agree more!

FUNDING We are pleased to announce the opening of our call for Small and Large Grant Applications under the theme of Nurturing Relationships.

Applications opened today and close at 12 noon on Friday, 24th January 2025.

Find out more and apply ⤵️

www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/news-and-blo...

Our chief executive, @margl24.bsky.social, shares advice on how parents and carers can have open conversations with children about smart phone usage and staying safe online. We’re sharing this blog in support of Fearless Scotland’s campaign to raise awareness of sextortion. ow.ly/8AJK50UhAQR

We can't #EndChildPoverty without tackling the #HousingEmergency. Ahead of today's Scottish Parliament debate on the Housing Bill read our joint briefing with @shelterscotland.bsky.social on child poverty and housing: www.aberlour.org.uk/publications...

The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Gisèle Pelicot