Sep. 26 2024

Found: • Staff and family surveys have shown that discrimination by education service providers, bullying

Mentions:
1: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) payment of the real living wage and recognition of real living hours to effective voice, robust anti-bullying - Speech Link

Sep. 24 2024

Found: conveniently located 5 Children too young to leave parents 5 Children are less safe in nursery e.g. bullying

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Asked by: Burnett, Alexander (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - Aberdeenshire West)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government when Scotland's Mental Health First Aid: Young People (SMHFA: YP) courses will be available, following the reported pausing of the programme in 2020.

Answered by Todd, Maree - Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport

The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people is an absolute priority for the Scottish Government.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) holds the national licence for Scotland’s Mental Health First Aid: Young People- (SMHFA:YP). Following COVID, PHS took the decision to pause the delivery of the SMHFA: YP, due to the content of the course being considered out of date, given changes to the social and cultural context in which young people live in Scotland (for example, content in relation to alcohol and drugs and bullying). There are no current plans to update the content or reverse the current pause on this programme; as many alternative and up-to-date sources of advice are available to adults who support children and young people.

A new professional learning resource for school staff, supported by the Mental Health in Schools Working Group, was published in 2021. The resource provides essential learning required to support children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. The resource is free and can be found at: CYPMH – Professional Learning Resource. A number of education resources linked to Curriculum for Excellence are also available to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in schools and other settings. Just this week, a new resource will be launched – One Good Adult:Job Description. This was designed by children and young people to help those around them provide the support they need.

In addition, Public Health Scotland and NHS Education for Scotland have developed further digital resources aimed at those supporting the mental health, self-harm and suicide prevention needs of young people. These can be found at: Informed level of practice | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot)

Interactive training is also available on specific topics. For example, Self-Harm Network Scotland provides free training sessions, in-person or online. Anyone can sign up for these sessions, and there are a range of options offered, with more in-depth sessions for professionals. Since these started in early 2023, the service has already trained over 2,500 people.

These sources of advice complement expanded provision of supports and services for children and young people – with access to counselling available through every secondary school; over 300 community-based mental health and wellbeing supports for children and young people now in place across Scotland; and advice for young people themselves available through the investment we have made in the likes of Young Scot’s Aye Feel website.

Sep. 19 2024

Found: The group expressed an understanding for parents wanting to protect their child from bullying or not

Sep. 19 2024

Found: Any reports of bullying and harassment at work are dealt with immediately through our Discipline and

Sep. 19 2024

Found: information regarding specific types of formal grievances, like “where the main cause was cited as bullying