World Children's Day

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: Awareness-raising, General principles

World Children’s day provides a reminder that every child, everywhere, has the right to survive, learn, be protected and have their voice heard.

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Scottish Children's Health Awards

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: Health and health services

Every year, the Scottish Children’s Health Awards shine a light on those who go above and beyond to support health, wellbeing, and rights, whether through care, creativity, advocacy, or sheer courage. Children’s Health Scotland and their supporters are delighted to celebrate nominees and winners of the Awards every year.

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Scaffolding of Success: Support, Educational Equity, and the Lifelong Reality of Care Experience

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: Care Experienced children

Moving from care into adulthood is often seen as a step from dependence to independence, but for care-experienced people, the journey is rarely straightforward or complete at 18. Despite Scotland’s commitments through The Promise, many still face barriers to consistent, person-centred support.

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Petition to Establish a Kindergarten Stage in Scottish Education

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: Education, including vocational education

Scotland’s children have the right to an early education that helps them thrive. Around the world, countries with top education results start formal schooling at age seven, following a kindergarten stage focused on play, social development, and emotional wellbeing. While Scottish policy supports a developmental approach, the current school structure makes it hard to deliver. Research suggests that the early formal schooling puts an unnecessary strain on children, rather than giving them the best opportunity to start their learning. A statutory kindergarten stage could ensure that learning for under-sevens is based on play, exploration, and language development, not formal schooling, and foster a healthy and appropriate learning environment.

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The Route Map to a Rights Respecting Scotland

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: General measures of implementation, General principles

All children and young people must have all their human rights respected, all of the time. We are supporting the development of the Rights route map, which will outline the steps currently underway and where further action is needed to deliver the promise from now until 2030.

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The Children are Now

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: Awareness-raising, Respect for the views of the child, Recreation, play and cultural activities

The Children are Now is themed around 'the relationship of children to the key challenges that we face today'. Artwork featured includes films, paintings, and other forms of art, some made in collaboration with children and young people and others made to represent the child's experience. The exhibition is running from the 28 th October 2025 to the 7 th February 2026. In the gallery, people from anywhere and of all ages can see the powerful messages that children across Scotland helped create, alongside artworks by famous artists, showing just how important children’s ideas are in shaping our world.

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CELCIS Christmas Card Competition 2025

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

CELCIS is inviting school-aged children and young people (up to the age of 18) with care experience (for example, foster care, kinship care, residential care, secure care or adoption) in Scotland to design their Christmas Card to help spread some festive cheer. The winning design will be used for CELCIS Christmas eCard and will wing its way across the world by email, carrying seasonal greetings to thousands of people.

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British Red Cross report on Refugee Family Reunion

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children, Family reunification

The British Red Cross has released a powerful new report, “I Returned to Life,” highlighting why the UK’s refugee family reunion process must remain open and accessible. With the future of this vital protection route uncertain, the report underscores how reuniting families offers safety, stability, and hope to those rebuilding their lives after conflict and persecution. The Red Cross warns that proposed government changes—such as financial, language, or residence requirements—could make family reunion almost impossible, worsening risks for children and families while undermining integration.

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Migrant’s Rights Network ‘Not a Stranger’ Survey

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

This initiative forms part of MRN's Not a Stranger campaign, a grassroots, migrant-led movement responding to a wave of increasingly hostile government proposals and political rhetoric that make it harder for migrants to build stable lives in the UK.

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The UN liquidity crisis and UN80 reforms: why children’s rights must stay at the heart of change

Date: 11th November 2025
Category: Funding, General principles

The UN is facing a deepening liquidity crisis that is already affecting how its core human rights bodies operate. The shortfall has forced several treaty bodies, including the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee), to cancel or reduce sessions. This means fewer opportunities for children and civil society to take part in the monitoring process, longer delays in reviewing States’ progress, and fewer avenues for children to seek justice when their rights are violated.

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