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  • Survey explores the effect COVID-19 has had on families

    Date: 22nd July 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Commissioned by Action for Children, a YouGov survey of over 2000 parents has highlighted the impact of COVID-19 and life in lockdown.

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  • Select Committee seeks views on life beyond COVID

    Date: 22nd July 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    A new House of Lords Select Committee on COVID-19 is asking for individuals and organisations to share their views on the long-term implications of the pandemic as part of their Life beyond COVID inquiry.

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  • Second implementation report on the Strategy on the Rights of the Child (2016-2021)

    Date: 22nd July 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

    The report presents an overview of children’s rights-related progress by and information on the Council of Europe’s actions and achievements under each of the five thematic areas of the Strategy on the Rights of the Child, namely; equal opportunities for all children, participation of all children, a life free from violence for all children, the rights of the child in the digital environment.

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  • Practitioner and parental wellbeing podcast

    Date: 22nd July 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Listen to the latest free podcast on practitioner and parental wellbeing from child development trainer/Consultant Stan Godek.

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  • How you(th) can be a leader for change

    Date: 22nd July 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Date: 12th August 2020

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  • Together endorses call to action on children’s right to a healthy environment

    Date: 10th July 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    The joint call, urges States to make concrete commitments towards realising children’s right to a healthy environment and marks the UN Human Rights Council’s Annual Day on the Rights of the Child on the same theme.

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  • COVID-19: Discovering the social and emotional impact on children and families

    Date: 10th July 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Scottish Government’s Children and Families Analysis Unit has published a briefing paper drawing on research exploring the social and emotional impact of COVID-19 on children and families.

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  • 2020 Annual Day on the Rights of the Child: realising the rights of the child through a healthy environment

    Date: 10th July 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

    The UN Human Rights Council held its Annual Day on the Rights of the Child on 1st July 2020. For the first time, children human rights defenders spoke in both panels to raise children’s voice and perspectives on the environment.

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  • COVID-19 underlines importance of strong fundamental rights protection

    Date: 25th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

    Fundamental Rights Agency’s Fundamental Rights Report 2020 report finds that growing intolerance and attacks on people’s fundamental rights continue to erode the considerable progress of protecting and promoting the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

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  • New report on children’s rights in climate policies

    Date: 25th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General principles

    Children will feel the largest impact of climate change and yet, despite their vulnerability, children are often overlooked in the design and content of climate policies and related processes. This report aimed to assess and contribute to addressing the gap between current practice and a ‘child-sensitive’ approach to climate policymaking.

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  • Explore how Scottish organisations have adapted their practice when responding to COVID-19

    Date: 25th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Barnardo’s Scotland has detailed how it has continued to promote, monitor, report and protect the rights of children and young people amid COVID-19. This work was prompted by concerns that children and young people’s participation rights have not been upheld.

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  • Nine equality principles to adapt for economic recovery in Scotland

    Date: 25th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Engender has set out nine evidence-based ideas, challenges, and calls to enable inclusive growth and recovery from COVID-19. They describe features of an economy that works for women as well as men and aims to create better jobs, better decision-making, and a more adequate standard of living for all.

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  • Last chance to sign up to our Disability, Basic Health and Welfare State of Children’s Rights webinar

    Date: 25th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

    This webinar will explore children’s rights issues on the topic of disability, basic health and welfare in Scotland, which will inform our report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Based upon our examination of the UK’s progress implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN Committee will make recommendations and thereby influencing legislation and policy.

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  • Together joins Human Rights Consortium Scotland members to raise concerns about potential human rights breaches during pandemic

    Date: 11th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

    Thirty organisations have contributed their experience, insight, and analysis to form the Consortium’s submission to Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee Inquiry: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Equalities and Human Rights.

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  • Latest ‘How are you doing?’ survey launched

    Date: 11th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    This is Children’s Parliament’s third month of running its ‘How are you doing?’ survey, asking 8- to 14-year-olds living in Scotland how they are feeling about life at the moment with the impact of COVID-19.

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  • Scotland's just and green recovery from COVID-19

    Date: 11th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Eighty civil society organisations have become signatories to a letter to the First Minister asking to meet and discuss how Scotland can successfully respond to COVID-19, whilst also tackling climate change to #BuildBackBetterScot.

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  • One in six Scots volunteer in lockdown

    Date: 11th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Research has revealed around one in six adults in Scotland (16%) have done some form of voluntary service since the start of lockdown. More broadly, ten million adults in the UK have come together to support their communities.

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  • Seeking children’s views on life under Coronavirus

    Date: 11th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General principles

    The Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast is seeking the views of children aged 8-17 years old about how their rights have been impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes asking about children’s right to health care, education, play, to be safe and to have their views taken seriously.

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  • New Scottish Government report on the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable children and young people

    Date: 11th June 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Family Environment and Alternative Care

    The report includes data about the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on vulnerable children and families in Scotland in the initial weeks of the ‘lockdown’, and the way that services adapted and responded to the crisis.

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  • Together joins over 100 organisations and academics calling for an emergency cash boost to prevent child poverty crisis

    Date: 28th May 2020
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    In an open letter to the First Minister, organisations are calling for a direct financial boost for all families living on low incomes to support them through the coronavirus crisis.

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