Best Start Foods is a prepaid card that can be used to buy healthy foods for children under 3.
Best Start Foods: A Prepaid Card For Healthy Foods
What if your food started talking back?
The award-winning performance artist, Mamoru Iriguchi, is back out on tour this autumn with Eaten, a show for children aged 6yrs+ about food, eating and being eaten!
The 2020 Bookbug Picture Book Prize: Vote For Your Favourite
Children across the country can vote for the winner by submitting a class vote online or at home, via the Scottish Book Trust website.
The Big Inflatables Are Out!
The Big Inflatables are out in the Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall.
Funding Support to Reduce Inequalities in Children’s Health
£1.7million of extra funding has been awarded to Scotland’s Health Boards to continue their work on reducing childhood obesity
Supporting Families in Scotland: the Scottish Child Payment
“It’s great to see the Scottish Government taking such ambitious and direct action to shift the curve on child poverty.”
Car Child Safety Checks
The Good Egg Safety Child Seat clinic is in the Tesco car park in Kirkwall on Wednesday 3 July, running from 11:00 to 16:00.
Future Changes to Scotland’s PVG Scheme: Disclosure Scotland Bill
“This Bill will deliver a fairer disclosure regime that protects our most vulnerable, is simpler for employers and less invasive for the majority of users.”
School Age Payment Open for Applications
The £250 School Age Payment is for families with a child old enough to start primary school this August and is part of the Best Start Grant
Equal Protection of Children Bill Passes Stage 1 in Scottish Parliament
“The Scottish Greens believe firmly in equal rights and non-violence. “
