Councils in England are to merge services to improve adoption rates according to plans to be announced in the Queen’s speech. The move comes following as adoption is “happening at too small and localised a scale” according to the Department for Education.
The new bill will force authorities to merge local adoption services if they fail to do so themselves within two years.
According to the latest statistics, Scottish parents are paying one of the highest rates for child care in Europe, with the facilities of care being worse than other areas of the UK.
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A £95 million initiative will give children in Primary 1- Primary 3 a free school meal from the start of 2015.
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The Child and Families Act 2014 (CFA) was enacted in March 2014 and has fundamentally changed the impetus of what Parliament see as important within family structure. Prior to April 2014, an order for a child arrangement, formerly known as a contact order, could only be made under section 8 of the Children Act 1989. However, Section 9 of the CFA has amended this with the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (ACA), with the insertion of section 51A and 51B. These provisions now provide the court with a specific power to make an order for post-adoption contact when the court is making an adoption order or when an adoption order has previously been issued.
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A collaboration between UNICEF, Glasgow 2014 and the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has created an interactive adventure for Scottish children that focusses on children’s rights and global citizenship.
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