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  • Growing Up in Scotland

    Date: 8th June 2011
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    The latest findings of a study shining a spotlight on the realities of life as a child in Scotland has been published.

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  • Young Scotland's Got Talent Awards 2011

    Date: 1st June 2011
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Young Scotland's Got Talent will celebrate their first birthday with an awards ceremony to be held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 22 June 2011.

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  • Impact of domestic abuse on school life

    Date: 30th May 2011
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    This week's topic on the Enquire blog explores the issues of children's rights and domestic abuse. This space helps children and young people to understand domestic abuse, and how to take positive action if it's happening to them.

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  • Survey on child-friendly health care

    Date: 25th May 2011
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Are YOU 18 years old or younger ? Would YOU like to complete a survey for the Council of Europe ?

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  • Equality Counting Project

    Date: 18th May 2011
    Category: Access to appropriate information, Non-discrimination, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Engender would like to work with members of Together (individuals or organisations) to hold workshops on child poverty and its relation to gender inequality.

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  • Children and Families Common Core of Skills 2011

    Date: 15th March 2011
    Category: Respect for the views of the child, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disabled children, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    The Scottish Government is seeking views on the common core of skills, knowledge and values for all those working with children, young people and families.

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  • Feel like you're living in a warzone?

    Date: 23rd February 2011
    Category: Equal protection from violence, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    That's the slogan eight young people came up with to support the Scottish Government's domestic abuse advertising campaign.

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  • Protecting the right of disabled people to independent living

    Date: 23rd February 2011
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights is seeking evidence about independent living for disabled people, as guaranteed by Article 19, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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  • Human Rights and Child Poverty

    Date: 7th February 2011
    Category: Respect for the views of the child, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Mark Kelly is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Rural Childhood, Perth College UHI. He is currently working on an action-based research project promoting Article 12 of the UNCRC. Here Mark gives his comments on human rights and child poverty following a presentation by Sir Al Aynsley-Green, former Children Commissioner for England, at the Westminster Education Forum.

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  • The UK Poverty Rip Off: The poverty premium 2010

    Date: 28th January 2011
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    The UK Poverty Rip Off campaign aims to raise awareness of the shocking fact that low income families are still paying more than better off families in the UK.

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  • Birkdale Trust for Hearing Impaired

    Date: 13th December 2010
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Disabled children

    The Trust supports activities that advance the education of children and young people with a hearing impairment; and other activities that promote the welfare of hearing impaired children and young people.

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  • UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women

    Date: 13th December 2010
    Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    UNIFEM (part of UN Women) has launched its call for proposals through the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) for programmes supporting country-level efforts to end violence against women and girls.

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  • The National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2010

    Date: 13th December 2010
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    New national guidance to help social workers, police, health professionals and others better protect Scotland's most vulnerable children has been launched.

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  • The Family Fund

    Date: 10th December 2010
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Disabled children, Family Environment and Alternative Care

    The Family Fund helps families with severely disabled or seriously ill children and young people aged 17 and under to have choices and the opportunity to enjoy ordinary life.

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  • Report Card 9 highlights material inequality in UK children

    Date: 6th December 2010
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    A new UNICEF report on child inequality in 24 developed countries has shown that income poverty has the greatest impact on child inequality in the UK.

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  • Scottish Government launches consultation to tackle child poverty

    Date: 1st December 2010
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    The Scottish Government is seeking views to inform the development of its new Child Poverty Strategy for Scotland.

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  • In the Best Interests of the Child?

    Date: 1st December 2010
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    It's a core principle of the UNCRC. But how do we make sure we're acting in the best interests of the child? Ahead of a keynote seminar 'In the Best Interests of the Child?' being held on 7th of December 2010 in Glasgow, Douglas Hamilton, Head of Save the Children Scotland, looks at some of the issues.

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  • Children's Hearings

    Date: 29th November 2010
    Category: General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Scotland's most vulnerable children are to benefit from improved support after MSPs backed the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Bill.

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  • The Lowdown – your guide to teenage health

    Date: 8th November 2010
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    This website is for young people looking for confidential advice and information about health related issues and the challenges they might encounter during their teenage years.

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  • Play Scotland welcomes Common Sense Approach to Health and Safety

    Date: 1st November 2010
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Lord Young, the Prime Minister's adviser on health and safety law and practice, has published his report Common Sense, Common Safety which puts forward a series of policies for improving the perception of health and safety.

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