Welcome to the Spring bulletin. The state of the world seems even worse since the publication of our Winter issue. The ongoing tragedy of the war in Ukraine, the rising costs of living and worldwide climate catastrophes make reading the daily news very difficult. So we are very happy to be able to announce that …
An inquiry has reported “extensive failures by local authorities and police” in tackling gangs that sexually abuse and exploit children. The report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse found that authorities and police forces may have downplayed the abuse due to concerns about negative publicity. Attackers were using “new ways” to groom younger children via social media …
Welcome to the Winter bulletin! Many of you may be feeling rather down about the state of the world at the moment, with uncertainty over new variants of Covid and the ongoing identity wars in society. However, there is some good news with the Government recently announcing that it is extending the consultation on the …
We have written a letter to Humza Yousaf, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in Scotland, to object to the Scottish National Health and Wellbeing Census which all school children are being encouraged to respond to. We are disturbed by some of the questions being asked which we believe are not appropriate when asked …
Rachel Rooney trained and worked as a teacher of Special Needs for many years before re-discovering her love of writing poetry. She taught for many years across a range of school settings and has particular interest and experience working with pupils with ASC (Autism). She is now an award-winning children’s poet and picture book writer. …