(1) Breaking the cycle of cruelty and harm for children and animals

Key activities

• Worked closely with the Scottish SPCA and their stakeholders to ensure the formulation and refinement of evidence-based policy and practice in relation to their ‘Prevention through Education’ programme and proposals for 'Animal Guardians', a new programme focusing on ‘high risk’ children and adolescents

  

• Engaged closely with practitioners from a wide range of professions

• Influenced policy and practice with respect to the illegal puppy trade

• Developed a new website

• Enhanced our media presence and social media reach

Key events - click on each one to view associated materials

• National knowledge exchange conference, co-hosted with the Scottish SPCA, 'The impact of the illegal puppy trade (November 2017)

• Workshop 1 - The 'pet effect': What effect do pets have on children's development and health? (February 2018)

• Workshop 2 - Children's emotional attachment to pets: Implications for vulnerable, looked after and accommodated children (April 2018)

• Workshop 3 - Childhood cruelty to animals: What does it mean and who is ‘at risk’? (June 2018)

• Workshop 4 - Animal welfare and animal-assisted interventions with children (October 2018)

• National knowledge exchange conference, co-hosted with the Scottish SPCA, 'Human-animal interactions: human well-being and animal welfare' (September 2018)