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Date: 28th May 2020
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Following the closures of schools due to COVID-19, councils and schools are currently offering support for families and children. Parents or carers with school aged children can share their thoughts and experiences of the success of the support offered by government, councils and schools and identify areas of improvement.
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Date: 27th May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Scottish Government has published two documents on the steps it is taking to promote, protect and respect children’s human rights during the current pandemic. The reports were prepared in response to the statement by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in April which set out 11 recommendations on what governments should do to take a children’s rights-based approach to the crisis.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Incorporation
The joint letter welcomes Iona Colvin to the post and offers our members’ support and expertise in assisting Scottish Government to secure appropriate rights-based responses to the current pandemic.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation
Together’s response to a UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) inquiry highlights the steps governments (UK and devolved) must take to ensure responses are human rights compliant, discusses the effect of specific measures on children’s rights and uses evidence kindly provided by our members to demonstrate some of the groups disproportionately impacted by UK and Scottish Government measures.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
The Scottish Government and the Scottish Prison Service have announced plans to give people in Scottish prisons access to secure mobile phones and tablets to facilitate contact with their families.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
The Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland has set out its new strategic plan for the next four years, informed by legislation and the views of children and young people.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
Scottish Government has recently published a framework which will guide its decision-making when transitioning out of the current lockdown arrangements. The framework focuses on balancing the requirement to suppress the virus and the need to safeguard human rights and uphold human dignity throughout the transition.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
The results of the Lockdown Lowdown survey have revealed that 96% of young people worry about the impact of coronavirus on their future, with 77% worried about their mental health and wellbeing. The Children’s Parliament survey indicates that girls are doing less well in boys in several ways, including their general mood, feeling bored, being worried and the feeling that they lack 'energy'.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Concerns have been raised by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland over the “very very low” uptake of childcare and school places set aside for vulnerable children.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation, General principles
The University College London’s Integrated Legal Advice Clinic has launched a legal challenge regarding the recent COVID-19 guidance issued by the Department for Education which allows local authorities to depart from the usual statutory duties owed by children’s social services.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation, General principles
The Committee has urged countries to respect children’s rights when responding to the pandemic, noting that lockdown measures can have grave physical, emotional and psychological effects on children.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General principles
The United Nations has produced guidance setting out the impact of COVID-19 on disabled people’s rights and daily lives. This has been produced as awareness of the attitudinal, environmental, and institutional barriers which disabled people may face can create a better response to COVID-19.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
UNICEF is conducting both short- and long-term research with the intention of using the findings to influence its practice and provide evidence to inform the work of other organisations.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
COVID-19 continues to impact the lives of children in a variety of ways and collecting information can aid the response to the current and future pandemics. Despite the need to understand, quantify, forecast and track COVID-19, data collection without ethical consideration can lead to negative outcomes for children who need support. This discussion paper examines what considerations need to occur and why.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
Closing date: 22nd July 2020
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
Closing date: 1st January 2021
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Date: 9th April 2020
Category:
General principles, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Two surveys have been created asking children and young people to voice how they are feeling about the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. The surveys are key to finding out what children and young people need so that they can be supported effectively.
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Date: 9th April 2020
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Schools closures came at a time when many pupils were preparing to sit their exams in May. Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYPs) have written to the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) offering to work with it to ensure the voices of young people are at the centre of critical decisions on exams and assessments.
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Date: 9th April 2020
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Due to the Coronvirus outbreak, the 85th session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which is scheduled for the 11-29 May 2020, has been postponed.
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Date: 9th April 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care
The response to COVID-19 is impacting the rights of children across the world, particularly those belonging to certain vulnerable groups. This article looks at a selection of issues identified by international charities and organisations, and what individuals, local and national government can do to respect, protect and fulfil children’s rights during this time of uncertainty.
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