SCCYP Releases Archive for March 2009
TVs in children's bedrooms 'are breaking up families'
31st Mar 2009
Parents should banish televisions from children's bedrooms because they break up families and create classrooms of badly behaved pupils, a teachers'...
Read More...Internet 'turning teenagers into pornography copycats'
31st Mar 2009
Teenagers are developing a twisted view of sex from pornography they view on the internet, researchers warn. Previous generations tended to...
Read More...COMMISSIONER'S REPORT: Sweet 16? One Year On
25th Mar 2009
Many vulnerable children moving from the care system still experience inadequate follow-up support despite local authorities instituting new...
Read More...Adults are suffering from fear of young people
25th Mar 2009
Children are being demonised because society suffers from ephebiphobia, or the fear of youth, a clinical psychologist claimed yesterday.Professor...
Read More...Position impossible?
25th Mar 2009
High-energy yoga is being taught to gang members in Glasgow's Easterhouse estate in an effort to bring warring youths together
Read More...60 Scots children made homeless every day
23rd Mar 2009
EVERY DAY, 60 children across Scotland are made homeless according to startling new figures unveiled today by housing charity Shelter. The study...
Read More...Big rise in child suicide calls
23rd Mar 2009
More than 500 young people phoned the ChildLine hotline in Scotland last year saying they were suicidal.Suicidal calls from children rose...
Read More...Parents feel excluded by children
23rd Mar 2009
Many parents feel "excluded" by their children's reluctance to tell them anything about their time spent at school, suggests a survey.The...
Read More...Nudists say relaxed view of body can reduce teen pregnancies
19th Mar 2009
NUDISTS said today that a more relaxed attitude to the naked body could reduce the number of teenage pregnancies.British Naturism said it...
Read More...Too much time in childcare may impair development
19th Mar 2009
Prolonged time spent in childcare could be detrimental to toddlers' development, according to new research commissioned by the Scottish Government.The...
Read More...Children’s TV to be protected by law
19th Mar 2009
Scottish news and children's programming on commercial television are being singled out for special protection by Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary,...
Read More...Sturgeon: Westminster benefit reforms would fuel child poverty
18th Mar 2009
A cross-border row has erupted after Scotland's deputy first minister accused the Westminster government of threatening to fuel child poverty...
Read More...Girls do better without boys, study finds
18th Mar 2009
Single-sex schools improve GCSE results and help struggling pupilsGirls are far more likely to thrive, get GCSEs and stay in education if...
Read More...Beating obesity looks like child's play as experts back 'active' games
17th Mar 2009
SCOTTISH health and education experts last night backed calls for interactive video games, such as the Nintendo Wii, to be used as a key weapon...
Read More...'Young face highest jobless rate'
17th Mar 2009
Unskilled young people have little hope of finding work or an apprenticeship after being "trapped" between a school system that failed them and...
Read More...Social services ‘should consider placing children with grandparents’
5th Mar 2009
SCOTLAND can avoid further cases like the Brandon Muir tragedy if social workers utilise the care on offer from wider family circles, protesters...
Read More...Unhappy children 'end up unwell'
2nd Mar 2009
Unhappy children are more likely to grow up to become adults who are permanently sick or disabled, a UK study has suggested.The King's College...
Read More...Criminal responsibility age to rise from 8 to 12
2nd Mar 2009
THE age at which children can be held criminally responsible will be raised to 12 under plans set to be unveiled within days.The increase...
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