Child care
Welfare, equality and social justice: Scottish independence and the dominant imaginings of the ‘New’ Scotland
Author / Creator: Gill Scott
Date published: 2016
This paper focuses on the extent to which issues of equality, social justice and social welfare have been mobilised in the most prominent imaginings of an independent Scotland.
Welfare, Equality and Social Justice:Scottish Independence and the Dominant Imaginings of the ‘New’ Scotland’
Author / Creator: Gerry Mooney
Media type: Article
Date published: 2016
Issues of equality, social justice and social welfare in the imaginings of an independent Scotland.
What is Care?
Author / Creator: Mark Smith
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Care is not ‘an intervention’, it is a continuous series of relationships we all have in many different settings, most of them informal. You can’t deliver formal care without recognising and working with the reality of informal care, whether familial or community-based.
Caring about Children
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Podcast
Date published:
Child and early years care in Scotland is a patchwork. Tthe latest Programme for Government perpetuates that. Things could be greatly improved by a strategic and holistic plan for care sitting within a National Care Service.
Empty Promise?
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
The Promise for family support and child care away from home needs a strategic standpoint integrating the relevant services.
Child Care or Caring About Children?
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Scotland has a system of support for children in their early years which is a patchwork of initiatives, fixes, legacy services and omissions. What we do not have is a single, well thought- through integrated service. This is what Scotland’s children need.
Renew: Six policies that can refresh the Scottish Government’s domestic agenda
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Policies to renew the Scottish Government’s domestic agenda:
- Create a Scottish National Investment Bank
- Build the homes and infrastructure that people need
- Create a world-class childcare system.
- Give more power to citizens.
An Equal Start: A plan for equality in early learning and care in Scotland
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: January 2016
This report is a plan for delivering change through a National Childcare Service in public provision, as a replacement for the fragmented, haphazard and unequal nature of the childcare sector at present. The report provides a comprehensive, costed strategy for achieving this transformation.