Centre of Excellence plan for East Renfrewshire. Child s House for Healing CHILD victims and witnesses are set to get help to recover from traumatic experiences at a new centre of excellence in East Renfrewshire. In a UK-first, a pilot project to protect young people will see charity Children 1st open the Child’s House for Healing. It will support up to 200 children from across the West of Scotland when it opens at the end of this year. Children will give statements at the house to specially-trained staff, away from police stations and court rooms. They will also get medical care and support to recover from their ordeal.
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A father was arrested for smacking his six-year-old daughter so hard he left bruises – because she would not go to bed.
The offence happened before the change in the law which banned smacking, but Sheriff Graham Buchanan said the man’s actions went “considerably over the score” at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Thursday.
The dad, who is not being named to avoid identifying the child, pled guilty to a charge of assault to injury over the incident, which happened on May 22.