According to research by Children 1st, children who have experienced abuse may have to tell their story to 14 different people before they get the support they need. Sometimes, children and young people have to tell their stories to people from up to nine different organisations—everyone from their schoolteacher to a High Court judge, which potentially adds more traumatic experiences to those they’ve already been through. To help address this issue, the Standards and Indicators Team within Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) were commissioned by the Scottish Government to jointly develop standards which will outline what a Barnahus model should be like in Scotland. Like many people, the term Barnahus was relatively new to me before I started to work on the standards project. I’d…
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Each year more than 3,700 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer, making the disease the third most common cancer in Scotland. It’s also the second biggest cancer killer in the country, with 1,600 dying every year. But it shouldn’t be: bowel cancer is treatable and curable, especially if diagnosed early.
