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Foster carers needed for Scottish teenagers

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 Category Children & Child Custody 0 Comments

There is an urgent need for more foster carers for teenagers across Scotland, new research from the Fostering Network has found.

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Inequality in treatment of Scottish kinship carers

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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 Category Children & Child Custody 0 Comments

Recent research from CHILDREN 1ST has found that the financial support kinship carers receive in Scotland can vary, depending on where they live.

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Scotland failing fostered children

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Wednesday, 21 March 2012 Category Children & Child Custody 0 Comments

The Fostering Network has warned the Scottish Government that if it fails to give fostered children proper financial support then these children will not have their essential needs met.

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NSPCC calls on Scottish Government to prioritise infant mental health

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Thursday, 08 March 2012 Category Children & Child Custody 0 Comments

The NSPCC is calling on the Scottish Government to strengthen its commitment to early intervention by putting Scotland’s youngest children at the heart of its forthcoming mental health strategy, as new figures show that the number of young children taken into care is the highest for more than ten years.

Tags: Children In Care, Foster Care, Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Custody Advice Dunfermline, Child Custody Advice Lawyers Dunfermline

Parental abductions on the increase

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Friday, 20 January 2012 Category Children & Child Custody 0 Comments

There has been a large increase in the number of children abducted by one of their parents, according to reunite International Child Abduction Centre. Latest figures show a 47% increase in calls to the charity's advice line.

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Child support arrangements in America

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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 Category Children & Child Custody 0 Comments

A recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau has revealed that in 2009, 41.2% of custodial parents received the full amount of child support owed them, down from 46.8% in 2007. The proportion of these parents who were owed child support payments and who received any amount at all — either full or partial — declined from 76.3% to 70.8% over the period.

Tags: Child Maintenance, Child Support Payments, Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Support Advice Edinburgh, Child Support Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

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