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1 The Choose Life Project (2006) has made a significant impact in reducing the suicide rate in Scotland, the Safer Scotland campaign has launched (February 2006) a violence reduction programme which includes a knife amnesty and there are a number of strategies in place to enhance opportunities in education for all ages.
2 In Scotland in 2006 there is no case law or legal precedent which explicitly recognises gypsy travellers as a distinct racial group, protected under the race relations legislation. The Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive, the Association of Chief Police Officers ( ACPOS) and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ( COSLA) have all recommended that as a policy matter they should be treated as a racial group, however this has the status of guidance for the public sector.
3 Transcript of a speech given by CRE Deputy Chair Sarah Spencer at the British Institute of Human Rights Lecture, London, on 11 March 2005.
4 The death of Dennis O'Neill, a war evacuee murdered by his foster parents, was an important influence behind the formulation of the 1948 Children Act and the establishment of Children's Departments. The intention of the 1948 Act was, "To keep the family together must be the first aim, and the separation of the children from its parents can only be justified when there is no possibility of securing adequate care for that child in his own home" (Circular 48/160).
5 Includes both paid and unpaid childcare positions.
6 The Scottish Executive announced a consultation on protecting vulnerable groups on 8 February 2006, taking forward the key recommendations of the Bichard report. The consultation ended on 2 May 2006 with a proposal that parliament considers a Bill in the spring of 2007.
7 Special schools provide education and in the case of residential special schools, care and education for pupils whose needs cannot be easily met within mainstream schools ( HMIE 2006:46).
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