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Review of the Additional Support for Learning Act: adding benefits for learners: a report by HMIE to Scottish Ministers, November 2010 [PDF]
Review background: "In May 2009, the Minister for Children and Early Years, gave a commitment to Parliament to establish a working group to report on how the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (the Act) is affecting ...
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Educational pathways and outcomes for care‐experienced children: A 16‐year longitudinal study
Abstract Children who are removed from their birth families during childhood—termed care‐experienced—can be at risk for lower educational attainment and poorer school experiences, often linked to deprivation and behavioural factors. However, research often uses aggregated measures that obscure the complexities of care (e.g.
Emily Lowthian +9 more
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The Children and Young People`s Commissioner Scotland [PDF]
The Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland was established in 2003 by the Scottish Parliament. The core value of the institution is to ensure the participation of children and young people in their work. The office is committed to working
Bruce Adamson
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Civil society in Scotland [PDF]
The outcome of the 2003 Scottish Parliament elections brings to mind the civil society equivalent of the patients taking over the asylum! 'Taking over' is an exaggeration but there has certainly been a minor invasion of groups who have been more commonly
Lindsay, Isobel
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Abstract Education has been an enduring feature of international human rights law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and is the only human right that is compulsory for children. Appearing in all major human rights treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is multidimensional and a multiplier of ...
Amy Hanna
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La pratique référendaire en Écosse avant 2014
The 2014 referendum was the fourth referendum organized in Scotland since this type of popular consultation was introduced in Britain. The object of the first two polls (1975, 1979) was to seek popular acceptance for two Acts of Parliament that had been ...
Jacques Leruez
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The Scottish parliament of 1621 [PDF]
ABSTRACTThis parliament saw two controversial government proposals: to ratify the Five Articles of Perth which introduced Anglican-style ceremonies into church worship, and to introduce a new tax on interest payments. A rare division list survives. It shows the split to have been partly regional: opposition was concentrated in Scotland's central belt ...
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The purpose of this paper is to review the evolution of Scottish policy for the provision of ferry services 1999-2009, a period broadly coinciding with the life of the re-established Scottish parliament.
Kay, Neil
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Understanding Legislator Experiences of Family-Friendly Working Practices in Political Institutions [PDF]
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edit version of an article published in Politics and Gender.
Allen, P, Cutts, D, Winn, M
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Early evolutionary history of the seed
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman +2 more
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