⭐️Buddy Up and Intandem Mentoring Services are looking for volunteers aged 18+⭐️ ✅Do you have a spare couple of hours per week to support a young person in West Dunbartonshire?✅ Please contact Carly or Lyndsey on 0141 941 3308 email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Amazing day today at the Yuri #ClimateStrike in #Edinburgh. Huge numbers of people - adults as well as children. Great to march with my :michael-ian: meldrum🎗👣 Sui Juris St. John 8:32 colleagues, share stewarding duties with Jacqui Dunbar, and hear Bruce Adamson Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland link #childrensrights & #ClimateCrisis.

Not too-shabby a commute! Safe journeys, new beginnings and happy endings have often started right here. Thank you to all our fabulous volunteer mentors and young people in Oban Lorn and the Isles embarking on a slightly different journey.

In Scotland’s largest city, one in four men die younger than anywhere else in the UK - it is called the Glasgow effect. Darren McGarvey goes behind the headline to discover the hidden reasons. Catch #DarrenMcGarveysScotland over on iPlayer bbc.in/30reDzP

October is ADHD Awareness Month - Teachers, if you'd like to help your class understand what it might be like for a child growing up with ADHD, read The Boy with the Butterfly Mind with them. 20% of my author royalties for this book will be donated to :michael-ian: meldrum🎗👣 Sui Juris St. John 8:32 #adhdawareness

Parental controls are an important #InternetSafety tool for #parents but technology is only part of the solution. 💻📱 #Communication - talking and listening to children and agreeing ground rules is key. Read #Parentline’s tips > children1st.org.uk/help-for-famil…

Representing :michael-ian: meldrum🎗👣 Sui Juris St. John 8:32 at the Together 🧡 birthday party - lots to celebrate inc:🎈Together is 10 🎉 The Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights is 20 & 🎂The UNCRC is 30! Loving #UNCRC Jenga & #childrensrights snakes & ladders & Maree Todd is about to cut this cake 😃

Agreed! Y sort it Power of young people and mentors' stories; listening, learning and feeling you have the right to help to become your best self.

Celebrate! Well done

Our Talking Hope report published today, giving voice to young people in secure care and the staff who support them @Maryalice1M intandem Children1st John McCormack lynne o'brien Gillian MacIntyre Liz Gourlay The Scottish Social Services Council @LauraSteckley Laura Lennox AHPed

We did it! 🎉 @JohnFinnieHI #SPEqualProtection Bill has passed with 84 votes to 29 😀 A huge thanks to all of our partners and colleagues who have worked tirelessly over many years to protect children in Scotland from all forms of violence. Here's our comment from @margl43:

More than 1 in 4 children are living in poverty in Scotland today. Families tell us that they are overwhelmed, by the practical struggles to pay for things they need, the emotional drain and stress, and the effect it can have on the whole family #ChallengePoverty #AyeWeCan

Up to 25% of women have had difficulties accessing sanitary products To challenge this we've made a variety of sanitary products available across a wide range of buildings including Council offices, health centres, halls, libraries and sports centres #ChallengePoverty #AyeWeCan

Girls, available from any of our workers and remember we wanna talk about periods! Your body is truly amazing! #periodpower #periodtalk #EndPeriodPoverty

x.com/personaloutcom… Trust, connection & feeling safe were recurring truths shared during this action research partnership :michael-ian: meldrum🎗👣 Sui Juris St. John 8:32 Together 🧡 ACE-Aware Nation Mark Ballard intandem @obanhighschool @rothesay3to18 #bairnshoose #equalprotection

Thanks! A total privilege to have helped support a relationship based approach to intandem's unique mentoring programme for Looked After Children Living at Home. Listening to what's happened to children,,tells us so much about what works. Julia Abel intandem

Riddle of the day! I run through hills; I veer around mountains. I leap over rivers and crawl through the forests. Step out your door to find me. What am I?

Good grief, you’ve got to seriously question good old British politics, as an unelected government advisor gives a briefing on himself. Wonder who’s advising him? 🙈

Check this Dominic Cummings press conference

‘It’s time to move on’ says government that’s worked harder to safeguard one man’s job in three days than it has to protect frontline workers and care home residents in three months.