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The Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) monitoring report 2020 presents all the latest available data on key alcohol indicators in Scotland.

Public Health Scotland developed a survey to find out how children in Scotland aged 2–7 years have been affected by COVID-19. The survey covered the following themes: key behaviours; children’s play and learning, use of outdoor spaces and social interactions; and the experience of parents and carers during COVID-19 in Scotland.

This briefing follows a paper produced by Public Health Scotland, before Covid-19, which looks at higher levels of child poverty in lone-parent families. This briefing looks at the same subject within the context of Covid-19, and highlights the challenges that Covid-19 poses to the efforts to reduce child poverty in lone-parent families.

This report outlines how a human rights-based approach will support recovery from COVID-19 and the resulting control measures. This is necessary to prevent negative impacts on health for the most marginalised people in our communities, and to reduce health inequalities.

This guide aims to help people working with adults with mild or moderate learning disabilities, or significant learning needs, who have experienced, or are at risk of experiencing, gender-based violence. The guide explains how to recognise gender-based violence, and how to respond in a sensitive and suitable way.

This study aims to aid the understanding of link working in the five early adopter sites funded by the Scottish Government in 2017. It aims to capture learning from these sites to help inform delivery and the potential wider roll-out of this and other models of care and support.

Working with many people and organisations across the UK, such as the Scottish Childhood Adversity Hub, we have produced a report called ‘Ending childhood adversity’. This new report builds on the Scottish Public Health Network report ‘Polishing the Diamonds’ and sets out a strong case for preventative action on childhood adversity.

The research to establish information needs for the Scottish pregnancy screening programme changes in 2020 is about what pregnant women and their partners want to know about Patau’s syndrome and Edwards’ syndrome. It also looks at what they think about non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT).

These reports focus on child poverty in lone-parent families. They describe the issues faced by these families and what can be done to reduce child poverty in this priority group.

Public Health Scotland is looking for examples of trauma-informed practice from the housing sector. These case studies are examples of this. They will be shared across housing, health and social care to support improvement, help with collaboration and reduce health inequalities.