Date: 11th March 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Funding, General measures of implementation, General principles, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Special protection measures

More than 50 charities and experts contributed to the report which considers the extent to which children in Scotland are able to exercise their human rights as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Date: 11th March 2020
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: 30th April 2020

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: 4th March 2020

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Parental responsibilities

Closing date: 30th April 2020

Date: 10th December 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The results of the 2018 PISA data collection, released earlier this month, revealed UK’s improved ranking in maths, science, and reading, while the UK was among the lowest ranked in pupils’ life satisfaction.

Date: 9th December 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The event, held on Tuesday 12th November 2019 in Glasgow, took a broad look across the dimensions of health and wellbeing curriculum to explore the progress made and how far there is to go to meet the needs of all children and young people.

Date: 8th October 2019
Category: Social security, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: 6th December 2019

Date: 26th August 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Child poverty

Teach First has published an investigation exploring the difference in results between young people who attend schools in England’s richest and poorest communities.

Date: 21st August 2019
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Respect for the views of the child

The campaign aims to celebrate and raise awareness of how the arts and creative experiences can help babies and young children learn about their rights.

Date: 25th June 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Scottish Government, Education Scotland and partners recently updated guidance on school exclusion and attendance in its report called Included, Engaged and Involved. Part One refers to school attendance and Part Two refers to school exclusion. The Part Two Guidance on exclusion was published last year and this week sees the publication of the new Part One on school attendance.

Date: 24th June 2019
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

A new report by UNICEF reveals that many of the world’s richest countries are failing to provide comprehensive solutions to families.

Date: 14th June 2019
Category: General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

The 2018 DGD outcome report is adopted! We are delighted to announce that the CRC Committee has adopted the 2018 DGD outcome report on Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders!

Date: 14th June 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Scottish Children's Reporter Association (SCRA) has launched a new suite of materials to provide information and support to children and young people on how to complain if they wish to.

Date: 5th June 2019
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

On behalf of the Scottish Government, CELCIS (the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland) commissioned Blake Stevenson to evaluate the Realigning Children's Services (RCS) programme.

Date: 5th June 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

In a project conducted by the Human Rights Clinic at University of Edinburgh in partnership with Together, LLM students explored the role of CRWIA (Children’s Rights and Well-being Impact Assessment) in improving rights-based decision-making. Two groups of students explored various international examples of impact assessments and drew learning to analyse the effectiveness of CRWIA in Scotland.

Date: 5th June 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Together, along with Child Rights Connect, presented a joint submission with the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education of the Dublin City University Institute of Education and  the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s concept note for a General Comment on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment.

Date: 5th June 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Scottish Government has published a report on progress and setting out actions agreed at the Cabinet meeting with children and young people in March 2018.

Date: 4th June 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

This report investigates the improvement of language ability during the primary school years and identifies factors which appear to help and hinder improvement over this period.

Date: 29th May 2019
Category: Bullying, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

respectme compiled a list of free anti-bullying teaching materials and campaign resources that will help you spark conversations with young people about the importance of positive and respectful relationships. 

Date: 30th April 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Equal protection from violence, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Bullying

UNICEF and Eurochild launched an online survey, inviting children and young people to share their views on the Europe they want. ‘Europe Kids Want’ gathered children’s and young people’s experiences of family-life, school, society and their thoughts on Europe. The online survey is active until 30 June 2019