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| Date added | Details |
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| 31.01.13 | Mental Health Foundation February 2013 Update |
| 24.01.13 | New National Framework for Child Protection learning and development in Scotland 2012 |
| 17.01.13 | Surviving Poverty: The Impact of Lone Parenthood - report from The Poverty Alliance |
| 10.01.13 | Child Protection Committee Annual Conference - 16 April 2013 |
| 07.01.13 | New ASD Parenting Group starting in February 2013 in Dunfermline, Fife |
| 13.12.12 | ADHD Services Over Scotland Final Report from Healthcare Improvement Scotland |
| 13.12.12 | New page on HandsOnScotland website - Parental imprisonment |
| 08.11.12 | Youth 1st training coming up in November - Move It (encouraging physical activity) and Internet Safety |
| 08.11.12 | New guidance published by NICE - Social and emotional wellbeing - early years |
| 16.10.12 | National Parenting Strategy has been launched by the Scottish Government. Bringing Up Children - Your Views, a magazine on parents' views, is also available |
| 11.10.12 | The Curious Case of ADHD - a twilight training session at Playfield Institute |
| 02.10.12 | The 2012 Infant Mental Health conference report is now available. For more info about the conference, click here |
| 20.09.12 | New course at Playfield Institute - Supporting Children with ADHD (Twilight session) |
| 19.09.12 | Consultation for an early years creativity network - consultation events across Scotland to hear the views of parents and early years workers |
| 18.09.12 | Parenting across Scotland conference - 3 October 2012 in Edinburgh |
| 17.09.12 | 10 October 2012 is World Mental Health Day - click here for info from YoungMinds |
| 10.09.12 | Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival, 1-24 October 2012 - click here for information about Fife events and brochure |
| 30.08.12 | Festival of Sport is taking place from 1 to 14 September 2012 |
| 27.08.12 | Mental Health Strategy for Scotland: 2012-2015 launched by Minister for Public Health |
| 20.08.12 | The Listening Stone Programme - training at Playfield Institute on how to use this programme effectively to develop resilience and build emotional wellbeing in children |
| 06.08.12 | Free event on eating disorders for professionals and carers. Email or phone 01334 696347 for more information |
| 25.07.12 | The national day for play is on 1 August 2012. Visit www.playday.org.uk for more information. |
| 18.06.12 | The guide to Getting it right for every child has been refreshed. It is now available on the Scottish Government website |
| 11.06.12 | Social determinants of health and well-being among young people - new report from World Health Organisation |
| 11.06.12 | Final report on children and young people's mental health indicators is now available on Health Scotland website |
| 31.05.12 | Scottish Pre-school Play Association conference on 4 October 2012 - "The Earlier the Better" - improving children's life chances through early intervention. |
| 31.05.12 | New early years portal on Social Services Knowledge Scotland website. |
| 28.05.12 | New learning resources from Alcohol Focus Scotland - to help practitioners support children & young people affected by alcohol. |
| 08.05.12 | "Doing good does you good" is the theme of this year's Mental Health Awareness Week, 21-27 May 2012. |
| 03.05.12 | Last chance to sign up for the Voluntary Youth Network Conference being held on 9 May 2012. |
| 19.04.12 | Developing a compassionate and resilient workforce - course now free to all Fife workers. |
| 19.04.12 | New course: Solihull Approach Two Day Foundation Training – The first five years. |
| 19.04.12 | New course: Transition and Management of Adult ADHD. |
| 04.04.12 | 22-28 April 2012 is Depression Awareness Week. |
| 29.03.12 | Families Outside is a charity providing support for families affected by imprisonment. Their website has been added to our Links section. |
| 28.03.12 | ENABLE Scotland has launched a new resource, "Tricky Moments", which has practical tips and strategies for managing challenging behaviour from children who have a learning disability. |
| 20.03.12 | Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorders in Children and Young People: workshop for frontline workers - new course at Playfield Institute. |
| 08.03.12 | Latest Child Protection Newsletter out now. |
| 07.03.12 | Developing a compassionate and resilient workforce - new course at Playfield Institute. |
| 05.03.12 | 2 April 2012 is World Autism Awareness Day. |
| 29.02.12 | Understanding Mental Health and Well-being workshop on 22 March 2012 - organised by Children in Scotland. |
| 29.02.12 | Children's Mental Health Conference, Glasgow, 15 May 2012. |
| 23.02.12 | What's On Your Mind? New campaign and resource pack from "see me" for people working with children and young people. |
| 22.02.12 | New courses at Playfield Institute - see programme for details. |
| 16.02.12 | Joined-up thinking: supporting brain development in early years, a one-day training seminar facilitated by Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Dundee. To be held on 1 May 2012. |
| 16.02.12 | Children in Europe 2012 Conference, 20 March 2012 - Life Changes: supporting transitions. |
| 06.02.12 | There are a few places left on courses organised by Fife Domestic & Sexual Abuse Partnership. |
| 30.01.12 | Fife Inter Agency Child Protection Training Programme 2012-2013 is now available. |
| 30.01.12 | The latest newsletter from LINK Befriending Project, Teen Talk, is out now. |
| 26.01.12 | Managing Self-Harm course being run by the Fife Early Response Self-Harm Project (Penumbra) on 24 February. |
| 26.01.12 | Scottish Solution Focused Network Gathering being held at Playfield Institute on 14 March 2012. |
| 16.01.12 | Latest newsletter from Penumbra Youth Project Fife out now. |
| 16.01.12 | Children and Young People's Mental Health Indicators for Scotland: Final Briefing November 2011 launched by NHS Health Scotland. |
| 11.01.12 | Raising Awareness of Family Therapy & Systemic Practice course at Playfield Institute. |
| 15.12.11 | Fife Child Protection Training programme for January and February 2012 now available. |
| 12.12.11 | The Scottish Mental Health Nursing Research Conference is being held on 20 April 2012, at the University of the West of Scotland in Ayr. |
| 07.12.11 | Latest Infant Mental Health newsletter, Baby Bites, is out now. |
| 06.12.11 | The Fife Anorexia Nervosa Intensive Treatment Team (ANITT) are delivering two conferences on eating disorders for professionals and carers. |
| 21.11.11 | The 2012 Child Protection Training Programme for NHS Fife staff is now available. This training is open to all staff across NHS Fife. |
| 24.10.11 | Autumn edition of "Connected", the Autism Spectrum Disorder newsletter out now. |
| 13.09.11 | New self-help service for mild depression and anxiety launched by NHS24. |
| 07.09.11 | Review of HandsOnScotland by Samson C Kwok, published in Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health (2011), vol 47, page 492. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-1754.2011.02174.x/abstract |
| 06.09.11 | The Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 2011 celebrates getting creative and connecting with others to improve everyone's mental health and wellbeing. |
| 29.08.11 | The ChooseLife website has been relaunched. |
| 04.08.11 | Helping Families Change Conference, 8-10 February 2012. |
| 03.08.11 | Conference - The Future of Foster Care in Scotland: Improving outcomes for looked after children, on 13 September 2011. Organised by Children in Scotland. |
| 04.07.11 | Latest findings from Growing Up in Scotland published. See www.growingupinscotland.org.uk for more info. |
| 20.06.11 | Parents' support group now running at Safe Space. See www.safe-space.co.uk for more info. |
| 14.06.11 | Playday in Scotland is on the Longest Day - 21 June 2011. See www.playday.org.uk for more info. |
| 08.06.11 | Morna Scriven, Institute Co-ordinator, is retiring on 30 June 2011. Morna has worked for the NHS for 17 years. |
| 16.11.10 | Flourishing Infants in Fife Conference 2011 - Conference being held at Bay Hotel, Kinghorn on 18 January 2011. |
| 08.09.10 | www.handsonscotland.co.uk - new section for parents and workers on how to help children to flourish! This was developed by Playfield Institute, NHS Fife, to fulfil Commitment 1 of the Scottish Government’s policy and action plan: Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland (2009). |
| 30.06.10 | Mental Health Improvement e-bulletin now available. |
| 26.05.10 | ADHD training at Playfield Institute this autumn. More information will be available on the Training Programme page soon. |
| 29.03.10 | "Baby Bites" - NHS Fife's Infant Mental Health Newsletter - first issue now available. |
| 16.03.10 | Mental Health Action Week, 4-10 April 2010 This is the annual awareness-raising week organised by the Mental Health Foundation. |
| 18.02.10 | Children's Mental Health one-day conference, 6 May 2010, organised by the University of Glasgow's Faculty of Medicine. |
| 14.01.10 | Flourishing Infants in Fife - training from the Scottish Institute of Human Relations, funded by Fairer Fife, in collaboration with Playfield Institute. This is a unique opportunity to take part in the highest quality training from the Scottish Institute of Human Relations. |
| 06.01.10 | Fife Mindfulness Group are running an 8-week course in Mindfulness from 1 February to 22 March 2010 at the Playfield Institute. This is free to all Fife employees within NHS Fife, the Voluntary Sector and Fife Counci |
| 01.12.09 | Health Rights Information Scotland and NHS Health Scotland have designed a poster that reassures young people about their right to a confidential service from the NHS. |
| 09.11.09 | Fife Child Protection Committee Annual Conference 2009 - half-day conference for practitioners in child protection being held on 18 November 2009. |
| 09.11.09 | A critical review of the literature on children and young people’s views of the factors that influence their mental health (September 2009), published by NHS Health Scotland. |
| 05.11.09 | Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Conference - Research & Interventions. This conference is being run by NHS Fife in partnership with Fife Council on Friday 4 December 2009, at Carnegie Conference Centre. |
| 16.09.09 | The child protection newsletter issue 3 is now available. |
| 07.09.09 | Introductory courses in Counselling, Pottery, Music Therapy, What is Infant Mental Health, Attachment in Practice and Sleep Problems have recently been added to our training programme. |
| 29.07.09 | The Playfield Institute have recently been successful in securing funding from the Scottish Government to extend the HandsOnScotland website. This will involve adding sections to the website focusing on mental health improvement and will be targeted at all those working with and caring for infants, children and young people. |
| 30.04.09 | NHS Fife Child Protection Team are moving to new offices. |
| 29.04.09 | FAB Conference, Edinburgh - Eating for Health, Mental Performance and Wellbeing, 6 May 2009. |
| 08.01.09 | The Prince’s Trust YouGov Youth Index investigates how young people feel about the state of their lives today and how confident they are about their future. |
| 05.01.09 | A journal article about Playfield Institute "Investing in the mental health of Fife: a sustainable model for increasing mental health workforce capacity to help children flourish" has been published in The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, Vol 3, Issue 4, December 2008. |
| 08.12.08 | Playfield Wellbeing Research Open Day is on 18 February 2009. |
| 28.11.08 | Some new training courses for 2009 have been added to the Institute's training programme. |
| 25.09.08 | Fife's Multi-Agency Strategy document is now available. |
| 28.08.08 | Infant Mental Health, "Implications & Interventions" - conference being held on 5 December in Kinghorn, Fife. This conference will be relevant to a range of professionals, from health, education, social care and the voluntary sector, with an interest in Early Years Services. |
| 27.08.08 | Promoting positve mental health and wellbeing - NHS Fife event open to members of the public and frontline workers. |
| 12.08.08 | The HandsOnScotland Toolkit Post-Launch Evaluation Report has been completed. The study involved over 60 frontline workers. Overall, the feedback was positive - workers' confidence increased and they reported feeling more supported in their work. |
| 17.07.08 | Scottish Government news - anyone experiencing mild anxiety and depression could now benefit from easily accessible therapeutic help as part of their personalised care plans. |
| 08.07.08 | New website launched by Depression Alliance Scotland - www.lookokfeelcrap.org This is a website about low mood and depression in young adults, and was launched in June as part of Scottish National Depression Week 2008. |
| 02.07.08 | Two new booklets have been released by SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) on autism spectrum disorders. One booklet is for parents and carers, and the other is for young people. |
| 16.06.08 |
In October 2008, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIe) – Services for Children Unit will lead a specialist team of Inspectors to look at how good our child protection services are in Fife. |
| 06.06.08 | Consultation on the discussion document 'Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland: The Future of Mental Health Improvement in Scotland 2008-11' has recently finished. A summary report of the findings has now been published. |
| 29.05.08 | HandsOnScotland Toolkit is one year old in June! The HandsOnScotland website was launched a year ago. Over the past year there have been over 20,000 visitors to the site. |
| 26.05.08 | How would your life be? - Child Sexual Abuse Conference, 16 & 17 June 2008 This conference has been organised by the West of Scotland Child Protection Network in association with the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN). |
| 24.04.08 | 80 new books have been added to the Library in the last few months. Another 50 books are due to arrive soon. |
| 27.03.08 | A comprehensive selection of links has been added to the Information section of the website. There are links to a wide range of general websites such as NHS, Government and Charities as well as websites that cover specific conditions such as ADHD, Anger and Anxiety. |
| 28.01.08 | New electronic system to improve Child Protection in Fife Vulnerable children in Fife are to benefit from a new electronic system which provides instant communication between agencies. |
| 25.01.08 | Scottish Government news - a single national body is to be established bringing together the various bodies involved in supporting, organising and delivering the Children's Hearings system. |
| 10.01.08 | This conference is promoted by Fife Children’s Loss and Bereavement Forum and will provide an update on new practice and research in supporting bereaved children and families. |
| 23.10.07 | Reclaiming the Mental Health Act - A free multi-disciplinary event: 22 November 2007 The day will include a combination of formal presentations from key speakers and interactive workshops. |
| 28.09.07 | Mental Health Week: 8-14 October 2007 Monday 8 October is the start of Mental Health Week 2007 in Scotland, with World Mental Health Day taking place on the 10 October. |
| 20.08.07 | In collaboration with mental health charity Penumbra and a group of young people, the Scottish Executive has created a profile page on Bebo. The forum can be viewed at http://positive-twist.bebo.com |
| 06.06.07 | Launch of HandsOnScotland toolkit - HandsOnScotland toolkit is an online resource for anybody working with children and young people. |