Date: 8th April 2024
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Recreation, play and cultural activities

Play is a fundamental right; it builds resilience, instils confidence and helps children develop. But children need time to play. That’s where we need policies, training and funding to get play integrated in education and community settings.

Date: 8th April 2024
Category: Violence against children, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Save the Children reports that nearly 26,000 children in Gaza, representing over two percent of the child population, have been killed or injured in the past six months of conflict, severely straining the already fragile health system and disrupting education.

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General principles

The Co-op and Barnardo’s have partnered up to tackle barriers to social mobility across the UK, with the aim of improving young people’s health, happiness, and access to opportunities. They are seeking to engage a group of young people in and around Shawlands to help them understand what other young people want to see improved and what they’d benefit from in their area.

Date: 9th February 2024
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

This article explores whether young children's right to be heard, especially regarding education quality, has experienced a form of 'rights inflation'—an expansion beyond the legal framework or an interpretation surpassing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) text.

Date: 8th February 2024
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The Scottish Government published a consultation for education reform last autumn. The consultation paper specifically focused on the new qualifications body and new approaches to inspection. 

Date: 17th November 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: 23rd of November

Date: 17th November 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: 18th December 2023

Date: 17th November 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Special protection measures

Closing date: 31st December 2023

Date: 11th August 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Young carers

The ‘Right To Rest’ campaign is youth-led and aimed to support young carers to take a break when they need to. 

Date: 25th April 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The Scottish FA wants to find out how things are going for young players, and who better to ask what it’s like to play the game than young people themselves?

Date: 25th April 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: 13th June 2023

Date: 8th March 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Recreation, play and cultural activities, Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

This short film is an uplifting story of play, children’s rights and multiculturalism in Glasgow. Licketyspit documents their latest project on how Storyplay can support integration, with over 700 children and families from different backgrounds taking part in meaningful play.

Date: 13th February 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Education, including vocational education

Children have been sharing their opinions on the teacher strikes which have been rolling across the UK, and how parents and carers are coping with children being off school.

Date: 17th January 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

Read on to find out about current funding opportunities for students and applicants with Care Experience.

Date: 10th November 2022
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: 5th December 2022

Date: 10th November 2022
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing Date: 9th December

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Child poverty

Closing date: 14th October 2022

Date: 1st August 2022
Category: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The High Court ruled that the complete focus on Christianity, to the exclusion of all other faiths, failed to approach religious education in an “objective, critical and pluralist manner”.

Date: 1st August 2022
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: 25th October 2022

Date: 7th March 2022
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Children’s Commissioner is opening up virtual sessions to connect with children and young people across Scotland.