Found: Initiative and Survivor Empowerment Director at Freedom from Torture , and Lejla Damon, Advocate for Children

Found: College London (UCL); and Shahida Tulaganova, Filmmaker, war reporter and Director of ‘Ukraine's St olen Children

Found: Myanmar Accountability Project) MYA0047 - Answer Myanmar MYA0048 - Ministry of Women, Youth and Children

Found: evidence be reported to the House for publication: Letter from Claire Coutinho MP, Minister for Children

Found: Members asked what options there were for them to support school children when their visit coincided

Found: parents on UC to be available to work for 30 hours 23283 Urgent review into the protection of unborn children

Found: a debate on the motion "That this House has considered e - petitions 636718 and 624185 relating to children

Found: Future program me Resolved , That the Committee undertake an inquiry into Children, Young People and

Found: Benfield , Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers , and Kama Petruczenko , Senior Policy Analyst for Children

Found: reported to the House for publication: Correspondence from Parliamentary Under -Secretary of State for Children

Found: ) Bill Committee, the Support for Infants and Parents etc (Information) Bill Committee and the Children

Found: Children aged under one receive £8.50 in total per week, a rise from £6.20 a week.

Found: This response covers two main themes: 1.the impacts of obesity on health, including on children and

Found: Chair of the Committee of Public AccountsHC 222 Session 2019–21 Number Title Reference 1st Support for children

Found: Allowance on flat, in which they were living, but had bought outright and put in Trust for their children

Found: In older children, obesity rates after the pandemic did not return to pre-pandemic levels, in keeping

Found: We are also keen to support community engagement programmes to increase cooking skills for children

Found: Helping children to love whole vegetables and fruits (and other healthy non-ultra-processed foods)

Found: Systematic Review: The OR of 36,113 cases in 24 studies (adults & children) was pooled together for

Found: In France: 16% of working-class children are overweight and 6% are obese, compared to 7% and 1% respectively

Found: Your baby's first solid foods What to feed young children Baby and toddler meal Nutrient intakes

Found: For example, 25% of children leaving primary school now live with obesity, compared with just 5% in

Found: OBESITY PREVALENCE: ●60% of adults / 30% of children live with overweight or obesity ●20% of children

Found: In 2022, vegetable consumption decreased by 7.5%, with children from the poorest fifth of households

Found: is specific to Danone UK only. 1.1 As part of Danone’s ongoing health commitments to infants and children

Found: recommended changes to the curriculum, exam subject specification and careers advice, to ensure that all children

Found: to deliver the HIV prevention drug PrEP and all routine and seasonal immunisations for adults and children

Found: women (P = .003).< Vandevijvere et al 2019) 3.The impacts of obesity on health, including on children

Found: In 2003 we were one of the first companies to apply principles for marketing food to children that

Found: The pilot study is aimed at teenagers (12/13/14 years old) to assess awareness, understanding and

Found: liver and respiratory disease5. 8.In the UK, it is estimated that over 60% of adults and 30% of children

Found: Knowing that 79% of parents claim their children would be more likely to eat healthy food like

Found: our produce, and we do not directly market least healthy food (either branded or own-brand) to children

Found: of UK adults, comprising 67% of men and 60% of women, grapple with obesity, alongside one in five children

Found: and culinary skills are crucial to improving diets and the Government has a role to ensure that children

Found: Health Star Rating approach . 21.The NPM was initially developed as a tool to reduce the exposure of children

Found: Our Scottish Refugee & Migrant Centre works with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, an already vulnerable

Found: medical services and ongoing treatment7, pregnant women being unable to access antenatal care, children

Found: England (Women’s Aid) is the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children

Found: Mothers separated from their children; women requiring psychology support going unsupported; women

Found: WRITTEN EVIDENCE FROM ADCS (ASU0120) Do you consider the accommodation of asylum-seeking children

Found: One individual was persecuted due to their work with an organisation that supports women and children

Found: the following: • There needs to be an urgent focus on establishing safe routes for unaccompanied children

Found: dependent on asylum support and other charities rather than independent -Impact on their family and children

Found: for the purpose of removal, the cohort of people liable to be detained – including unaccompanied children

Found: they be moved back into hotels, unfit for purpose and poorly suited for the needs of families and children

Found: in Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (NABA 2022) to stop the UK from subsequently sending women children

Found: offering therapy and holistic support to young people who have arrived as unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

Found: specialist provider of gender-based violence services in the country, supporting thousands of women and children

Found: For teenagers and young men, as many asylum-seekers are, the quantity is insufficient. 4.

Found: Therefore, this power applies to children as well as adults, although the extent to which it may be

Found: Sara later learned that the violence her sister and her children were experiencing was known to social

Found: of the regions previously held by Daesh are now liberated, to this day, over 2,700 Yazidi women and children

Found: By choosing to phase delivery and start with a smaller group of children, most of whom were already in

Found: Chair of the Committee of Public AccountsHC 222 Session 2019–21 Number Title Reference 1st Support for children

Found: I have not been able to face appealing as I’m also dealing with paperwork for two children who have

Found: DHSC and NHS England, in particular the Cancer Mission, and its £22.5 million of support,7 and the Children

Found: all services, including those highly personalised services for our most vulnerable adults and children

Found: the Netherlands’ welfare system resulted in families being pushed into poverty due to false debts, children

Found: opportunities of students.4 It should not assess whether there is a need for intervention in regard to children

Found: RISK / BENEFIT ASSESSMENTS BY CHILDREN 13.

Found: support our members to help deliver the best care for their patients, in order to improve the lives of children

Found: scale, and the research controlled for standard demographic variables: age, marital status, number of children

Found: The move towards dual registration courses in children and young people and learning disability nursing

Found: health through knowledge, research and expertise, to improve the health and wellbeing of infants, children

Found: constantly worrying about how they are going to pay bills or eat or how to provide for their children

Found: revealed the previously untold experiences of those charged with the responsibility of looking after children

Found: Consent Survey undertaken together with Refuge, a charity that provides specialist support for women and children

Found: affects various groups of people; for example, disabled passengers, as well as parents with young children

Found: Chair of the Committee of Public AccountsHC 222 Session 2019–21 Number Title Reference 1st Support for children

Found: Chair of the Committee of Public AccountsHC 222 Session 2019–21 Number Title Reference 1st Support for children

Found: and teenagers.

Found: distinct population and demographic groups. 4.3.The impacts of obesity on health, including on children

Found: proportionately reduce children’s exposure to HFSS ads and to curb their appeal to primary school children

Found: Children deserve better food than they often get in schools, however action in schools cannot be

Found: In 2015 to 2016, 19.8% of children aged 10 to 11 were obese and a further 14.3% were overweight.

Found: We note that the committee had questions regarding the effect of liver disease in children.

Found: , Lambeth, Nottingham, and Southend are supporting families to give their babies and very young children

Found: Citizens reflected that it was hard for them and their children to eat well in their local area –

Found: Government reports that 63% of adults are above a healthy weight, whilst in primary schools, 1 in 3 children

Found: Consequently, children living with obesity are more likely to have reduced scholastic attendance and

Found: As a result, the prevalence of obesity in children in the most deprived areas continues to be more

Found: and 19 grams for children aged 4 to 6.9 The British Nutrition Foundation found that on average an

Found: Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman [CSC0046] Hampshire County Council [CSC0047] The Children

Found: Minister announced a £35 million investment in grassroots cricket facilities to expand opportunities for children

Found: Correspondence to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing on

Found: CBE0136 - Children, young people and the built environment Playing Out Written Evidence

Found: CBE0134 - Children, young people and the built environment Room 13 Hareclive Written Evidence

Found: CBE0135 - Children, young people and the built environment Devorah Block Written Evidence

Found: continue to be sold supplied to or for them, if the other conditions for private prescribing for such children

Found: earners, increase existing cash transfers to the poorest with new schemes for poorer families with children

Found: There is a large spectrum of behaviour in children and adolescents that attracts this diagnosis.

Found: Last weekend, Russia struck a home improvement store in Kharkiv, killing 18 people, including two children

Found: continue to be sold suppli ed to or for them, if the other conditions for private prescribing for such children

Found: restrict the prescribing and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones, known as ‘puberty blockers’, to children

Found: from South Sudan, DRC, Ukraine and the West Bank to hear their thoughts on the most pressing needs of children

Found: In April 2022, there were 432 children in custody, the latest monthly figure.

Found: In April 2022, there were 432 children in custody, the latest monthly figure.

Found: These data reflect this change note 8 The dependent children variable has been changed so that it reflects

Found: Other qualifications 13.7 11.0 17.0 Highest qualification: No qualification 16.5 13.1 20.6 Dependent children

Found: provision for the child whether the academy has been asked to accept a disproportionate number of children

Found: this page to reflect changes to the fair access protocol and to add the form to use for looked after children

Found: Request to direct admission of a child to an academy – looked after and previously looked after children

Found: For example, the Children and Families Act 2014 may require special educational needs provision to be

Found: .); under paragraph 1 of schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 (orders for financial relief against parents

Found: .); under paragraph 1 of schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 (orders for financial relief against parents

Found: in relation to the facts found proved, involved breaches of KCSIE or Working Together to Safeguard Children

Found: of himself and others around him and “modelled exceptionally professional behaviour 16 towards children

Found: Adrenal responses to low dose synthetic ACTH (Synacthen) in children receiving high dose inhaled fluticasone

Found: • Levemir InnoLet is indicated for treatment of diabetes mellitus in adults, adolescents and children

Found: Bruce , involved breaches of the responsibilities and duties set out in statutory guidance Keeping children

Found: The panel noted that Mr Moss ’ actions were relevant to teaching, working with children and/or working

Found: The panel noted that Mrs Duffin’s actions were relevant to teaching, working with children and working

Found: Mr Butler also queried why looking down on the children would be considered inappropriate behaviour,

Found: In or around October 2021, she said to Pupil B “it’s no wonder your mother didn’t have any other children

Found: included within this monitoring as findings suggest an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children

Found: accounts by age of child Table 6 Numbers of children with used Tax-Free Childcare accounts by age of

Found: Details Tax-Free Childcare Statistics provides information on the numbers of families and children

Found: and workless households in the UK: January to March 2024 Annual UK estimates of the number of children

Found: exposure to MWI chimney emissions, but a small potential increase in risk of congenital anomalies for children

Found: Topical steroid s can be used safely in children if recommended by a healthcare professional.

Found: Special Considerations for Children Topical steroids can be used safely in children if recommended by

Found: Raising the aspiration and achievement of our children, young people and families 3.

Found: The refreshed Plan sets out the Government’s vision to 2030 to enable all children and young people

Found: transition system, so that key stage 2 language learning is built on, rather than undermined, when children

Found: agreed to close its scrutiny of the report on 25 April 2024 and in doing so, write to the Education, Children

Found: the Renters (Reform) Bill which would prohibit discrimination and restrictions against people with children

Found: agreed to close its scrutiny of the report on 25 April 2024 and in doing so, write to the Education, Children

Found: (b.) exclude temporary placements for foster children where the accommodation is not their main residence

Found: (b) foster children- a relatively niche point, but again one that seems entirely reasonable.

Found: Foster care arrangements – exclude temporary placements for foster children where the accommodation

Found: There will be investment of over £370 million in 2024-25 to support concessionary bus travel for children

Found: 2023 the Committee wrote to the Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees29and the Minister for Children

Found: Custody (Scotland) Act 2023 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/145 (C.13)) Education, Children

Found: Published 29 May 2024 SP Paper 598 3rd Report (Session 6) Education, Children and Y oung People Committee

Found: are the provisions on: •creation of the framework for introducing new social security benefits for children

Found: Those VSOs are Victim Support Scotland, Rape Crisis Scotland , ASSIST and Children 1st. .

Found: Alex is a single parent with three youn g children living in Fife and is in work or study.

Found: Succession (Scotland) Bill after Stage 2 •Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill after Stage 2 •Children

Found: afford to pay for the training themselves or t heir employer c ould not afford to pay: ‘I have two teenagers

Found: preventing imagery, colours, descriptors and branding , to reduce the attractiveness of products to children

Found: stated that with the benefit of hindsight I should have ‘pressed more’ on the assurances provided by my children

Found: also made points about the failures of the last Labour Government, as judged by the stunting of children

Found: should be noted that the Bill repeals and re-enacts (with minor modifications) existing powers in the Children

Found: This payment is provid ed to families of severely disabled children and young people.

Found: Another important project discussed in this section was the “Children and AI Project .

Found: might be a woman single -handedly looking after six small childre n Q: From a charity f eeding children

Found: FNS’s biggest response and revealed significantly greate r commitment of fathers to parenting their children

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to including a specified foster care allowance rate for young people in continuing care.

Answered by Don, Natalie - Minister for Children, Young People and Keeping the Promise

The Scottish Recommended Allowance (SRA) currently applies to placements of children in foster care and eligible kinship care. Continuing care rates are for each individual local authority to determine.

We are considering a range of issues that impact young people and their carers as young care experienced people prepare to move on from care into adulthood.

We will launch a public consultation in Summer 2024 which will ask for views on the support required to help young people as they move on from care. This will include questions on the improvements which can be made to the provision of Continuing Care.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it discontinued the Smarter Choices, Smarter Places programme, and what its position is on what any repercussions of that decision will be.

Answered by Hyslop, Fiona - Minister for Transport

The Smarter Choices, Smarter Places (SCSP) programme was a long-established cornerstone of the way the Scottish Government approached promoting the popular shift to more active and sustainable ways of making our everyday journeys.

With its origins in the 2006 National Transport Strategy commitment to test and explore “sustainable travel demonstration towns and villages, to reduce car use and promote cycling, walking, home zones, tele-working and pedestrianisation”, the SCSP programme was announced jointly by the Scottish Government and COSLA in early 2008. The term ‘smarter choices’ was itself coined in the title of an extensive “Smarter Choices – Changing the Way We Travel” report conducted by a group of academic experts and published by the UK Department for Transport in 2004.

Seven pilot projects ran for three years from 2009 to 2012, and following their success, the programme was continued and then expanded nationally, being delivered on Transport Scotland’s behalf by ‘Scotland’s national walking charity’ Paths for All, from 2015. SCSP continued to adapt as time went on, and as of 2023, it consisted of three funding and support packages: The core 'Local Authority Fund' allocated on a per capita basis to councils, an 'Open Fund' launched in 2018 to support public and third sector community-level projects, and an 'Active Nation Fund' launched in 2023 to support larger more strategic multi-regional projects.

Paths for All managed the funding bid, allocation, and monitoring and evaluation process across the entire programme, providing a wealth of expert help and advice to the beneficiaries of all three funds, and facilitating knowledge and best practice sharing nationally through an SCSP Network. I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Paths for All and all of the staff who have worked on the SCSP programme since it's inception and to this day, for their passion, dedication, and hard work in the service of a more sustainable Scotland.

Some twenty years on from the publication of the original 'Smarter Choices' report, and after nearly ten years of Path for All's stewardship of SCSP as a national programme, we continue to adapt with the times. This year marks the start of a new chapter in the way we seek to achieve these outcomes. The stark reality is that despite the stalwart efforts and proven individual successes of SCSP projects, and the many other active and sustainable travel initiatives that we have supported, the national level figures across walking, wheeling, and cycling for the last decade and beyond have remained stubbornly consistent.

Meanwhile, this government's ambition for active travel has never been greater, nor our acknowledgement of the vital role it has to play in keeping us physically fit and mentally happy, with cleaner air and safer streets for everyone. Not to mention, of course, helping tackle the climate emergency for the sake of our children. And knowing the social and economic dividends that these outcomes deliver, we have concentrated our efforts: Investment in active travel infrastructure and promotion stands at record levels, over five times the amount this year than it was in 2012.

In this context, we require a new model of programme delivery that can take this level of ambition and transform it into the change that people want and expect to see. That's why we took the decision, as difficult as it may have been for such a well-established programme, to discontinue SCSP, as part of a much larger transformation of active travel delivery across both infrastructure and behaviour change.

Our new ‘Active Travel People and Place’ programme is a fresh approach whereby budget which was previously grant funded from the centre of government directly to national third sector delivery partners, has instead been entrusted to Scotland's seven Regional Transport Partnerships (RTPs). RTPs have in turn worked with their respective local authorities to design their own tailored programmes of behaviour change initiatives under a national policy framework. Coupled with our new delivery model for active travel infrastructure, our vision is for more control and autonomy at regional and local levels, with an emphasis on the important link between behaviour change and infrastructure in achieving modal shift.

In discontinuing the SCSP Local Authority Fund we have retained core funding to councils through a separate ‘Local Authority Direct Award’, which in the spirit of the Verity House Agreement, lessens administrative burdens around application and reporting. In discontinuing the SCSP Open Fund we have retained interim support for community projects through a ‘Community Projects Transition Fund’, with Paths for All working with RTPs on capacity and capability building and future delivery model design. In the creation of the Active Travel People and Place Programme overall, to a significant extent the RTPs have chosen to retain the services of our established third sector delivery partners.

Our position on the impact of these reforms is that they will help us rise to the challenge of meeting our ambitions, delivering active travel services that are better aligned with regional transport strategies and infrastructure, that better meet the needs of local communities, and that significantly increase the national-level numbers of active and sustainable everyday journeys.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on Diabetes UK’s call for new national targets to aim for 100% of children and 70% of adults with type 1 diabetes to be using hybrid closed loop technology by 2030, as set out in its report, Diabetes Tech Can’t Wait.

Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-27895 on 28 May 2024. The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that everyone living with diabetes can access the care that they need to live their lives well. This includes increasing access to diabetes technologies.

Between 2016 and 2022, we invested £29.6 million of additional funding to support the increased provision of diabetes technologies.

I am delighted to confirm that this financial year, £8.8 million of funding will be made available to expand access to diabetes technologies in Scotland. The focus will primarily be on providing access to all children that want Closed Loop Systems, but will also allow us to continue increasing access to adults.

This investment will allow us to continue developing innovative care models for diabetes in Scotland that have a focus on digital pathways and peer support.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers .

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to improve access to real-time continuous glucose monitoring (rt-CGM) systems for people living with (a) type 1 and (b) type 2 diabetes.

Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that people with diabetes to receive the best care, treatment and support. This year, we are investing £8.8 million of additional funding to support increased provision of Hybrid Closed Loop Systems (CLS) to those living with Type 1 diabetes in Scotland. The focus will primarily be on providing access to all children with Type 1 diabetes who want a CLS but will also allow us to continue increasing access to adults.

For people living with Type 2 diabetes, there is clear evidence on when real-time continuous glucose monitors should be offered. Guidelines for Type 2 diabetes ensure that people are able to access a variety of treatments and where appropriate, this is primarily focused on lifestyle support. We understand that demand for technologies is increasing and we will continue to assess where need is unmet.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what it is doing to encourage widening access to diabetes technology for people living with (a) type 1 and (b) type 2 diabetes.

Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health

I refer member to answer to question S6W-27483 on 29 May 2024 . The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that people with diabetes to receive the best care, treatment and support. This year, we are investing £8.8 million of additional funding to support increased provision of Hybrid Closed Loop Systems (CLS) to those living with Type 1 diabetes in Scotland. The focus will primarily be on providing access to all children with Type 1 diabetes who want a CLS but will also allow us to continue increasing access to adults.

For people living with Type 2 diabetes, there is clear evidence on when real-time continuous glucose monitors should be offered. Guidelines for Type 2 diabetes ensure that people are able to access a variety of treatments and where appropriate, this is primarily focused on lifestyle support. We understand that demand for technologies is increasing and we will continue to assess where need is unmet.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers .

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to provide NHS boards with any additional funding towards the roll-out of new diabetes technologies in 2024-25, and, if so, whether it will provide details of this.

Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-27895 on 28 May 2024. The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that everyone living with diabetes can access the care that they need to live their lives well. This includes increasing access to diabetes technologies.

Between 2016 and 2022, we invested £29.6 million of additional funding to support the increased provision of diabetes technologies.

I am delighted to confirm that this financial year, £8.8 million of funding will be made available to expand access to diabetes technologies in Scotland. The focus will primarily be on providing access to all children that want Closed Loop Systems, but will also allow us to continue increasing access to adults.

This investment will allow us to continue developing innovative care models for diabetes in Scotland that have a focus on digital pathways and peer support.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers .

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action it is taking to ensure equity of palliative care services for children.

Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health

One of the key aims of the Scottish Government’s new strategy on palliative care, which is currently being developed, is that children living with a life-shortening condition, anywhere in Scotland, will have equitable and timely access to the general and specialist palliative care services they may need.

The development of the strategy has been informed by representatives of palliative care for children and young people on the Strategy Steering Group. A Children and Young People’s Working Group, including experts in neonatal and paediatric palliative care, is developing new actions to address equity and continuity of access to paediatric palliative care across all places of care for babies, children and young people, including care around dying or transition to adult services.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has plans to increase funding for the provision of palliative care of children, including to (a) ensure that (i) children’s community nursing teams are fully staffed and (ii) children’s hospices are sustainably funded and (b) create the post of specialist practitioner. 

Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring the provision of high quality child palliative care, regardless of location, supported by sustainable funding of at least £7m per year through CHAS (Children’s Hospices Across Scotland).

We are working with NHS National Services Scotland (NSS), Health Boards and CHAS to improve the sustainability and oversight of funding for CHAS and to develop a long term sustainable funding model.

The Palliative Care Strategy Steering Group’s Children and Young People’s Working Group is developing new actions to address equity and continuity of access to paediatric palliative care, including the staffing models required to deliver this.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the assessment of the National Autistic Society Scotland that "while there are instances when part-time timetables could be beneficial, we know they are being used as a ‘sticking plaster’ for existing inadequacies in ASN provision".

Answered by Gilruth, Jenny - Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all children and young people get the support they need to reach their full learning potential, including those with autism.

It is for local authorities to determine the most appropriate educational provision for pupils, taking into account both their legal responsibilities and the individual circumstances and wishes of children, young people, and their families.

The decision to adopt part-time learning should be taken in agreement with the school and the local authority and should also take into account the circumstances of the individual learner including existing planning arrangements in place for the child or young person.

The Scottish Government continues to work in partnership with Education Scotland and a range of stakeholders to improve professional understanding of, and support for autistic learners in all settings.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to extend eligibility for the Scottish Child Payment to foster parents.

Answered by Somerville, Shirley-Anne - Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice

The Scottish Government is grateful for the hard work foster carers do in providing caring homes to vulnerable children. However, there are no plans to extend eligibility for Scottish Child Payment to all foster carers.

Children in foster care are considered looked after by the local authority and, as such, foster carers do not satisfy the legal responsibilities or rights that entitle them to child responsibility benefits. Foster carers receive allowances from local authorities to cover the needs of children living with them.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government when the next summary report on access to counsellors in secondary schools and children and young people’s community mental health services will be published.

Answered by Gilruth, Jenny - Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills

The next summary report, for the period January to June 2023, will be published in the coming weeks at: Access to counsellors in secondary schools and children and young people’s community mental health services – summary reports - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .

Falkirk Council are seeking to plug a £65m deficit in their accounts over the next 5 years. They have allocated a significant proportion of the required savings, £40m, to Children’s Services and are proposing to finish the school week at 12:30 on Fridays to achieve £5.751m of this. However, this requires a reduction of school hours from 25 to 22.5 hours per week for Primary children and from 26.6 to 24.75 hours per week for Secondary education. This is 10% less than every other Primary school in Scotland, putting the children of Falkirk at a significant disadvantage compared to their peers. Over the course of a child’s formal education in a Falkirk school they would receive 52 weeks less teacher contact time, more than an entire academic year, and yet will be expected to achieve the same standards of grades.

Alongside the hugely detrimental effect on our children’s education, working families will suffer as hours, and thus family income, will have to be cut to accommodate this change.

Found: However, this requires a reduction of school hours from 25 to 22.5 hours per week for Primary children

[On 17th April 2024, The Kite Trust, an LGBT+ organisation based in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, met with Dr Hillary Cass](https://thekitetrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Cass-Review-Mythbusting-Q-and-A.pdf). During this meeting Dr Hillary Cass made a number of statements that appear to contradict the conclusions of the review.

This raises serious concerns over the validity of [the decision of health boards, including NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, provider of the only clinic which treats under 18s in Scotland for gender dysphoria, on the 18th of April to pause the prescription of puberty hormone suppressants and gender affirming hormones to young people](https://www.nhsggc.scot/service-update/).

Many families will be greatly impacted by this knee jerk pausing of treatment.

The health and wellbeing of trans and gender non-conforming children will be adversely affected by the pause. It's therefore imperative that this effective treatment for gender dysphoria in children and adolescents is resumed without delay.

Found: End the pause on prescribing puberty blockers to children in Scotland

Found: The approach taken has been modelled on the Children and Y oung People's Commissioner Scotland.