General Comment No. 27 (2025) on economic, social and cultural rights and the environmental dimension of sustainable development

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: General Comments, Right to a healthy environment, General measures of implementation

Overall, the Comment positions environmental protection not as optional, but as a core obligation under international human rights law. It stresses that environmental harms, such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, are already undermining ESC rights, especially for marginalised and vulnerable communities.

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Protecting Children Online Without Silencing Them

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: Access to appropriate information, Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

Eurochild has compiled recommendations as to how to appropriately keep children safe online. In the face of ongoing concerns about children’s safety online, some member states of the European Union are seeking to adopt legislation that would effectively ban children and young people under the age of 15 or 16 from the internet. Eurochild’s suggestions are all based on the understanding, that while children and young people need protection, this cannot mean that they are excluded from the online world entirely. Taking access to the internet would also mean to take crucial ways to exercise their rights to freedom of expression, information, education and participation away.

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Just Fair's New Strategy

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: Policy and strategy

Just Fair aims for a UK where everyone, no matter if adult or child, can enjoy their economic, social and cultural rights. They introduce three main points in their strategy to achieve this: Maximising the impact of collective action, making rights real in law and practice and paving the path towards a fairer, more equal and just society.

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Human Rights Measurement Initiative 2025

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Civil Rights and Freedoms

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) is delighted to launch its latest data for the United Kingdom, informed by insights from over 500 global respondents in the 2025 annual survey.

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Child rights and wellbeing impact assessment for risk assessment guidance on fostering a positive, inclusive and safe environment and violent, aggressive and dangerous behaviour

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: Child rights impact assessments, Education, including vocational education, Inclusive education

The guidance documents are linked and to be read in relation to each other. Both aim to give clarity and consistency to schools, local authorities, children, and families on behaviour expectations, consequences, and risk processes. They have been created keeping in mind not only children’s rights, but also evidence from the Behaviour in Scottish Schools Research 2023 shows rising concerns about inconsistent responses, limited consequences, and staff confidence in managing behaviour. There have been some concerns, that when creating this guidance, there was only limited contribution from children and young people themselves, however the Scottish Government has made the commitment to include more children and young people’s voices in further research relating to this guidance.

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Together's UNCRC Training Session: Accountability in a Children’s Human Rights Approach

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: Training

There are still spaces available to join Together to develop your understanding of how to implement the accountability principle of a Children’s Human Rights Approach in your work and organisation.

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Together’s UNCRC Training Session: Embedding in a Children’s Human Rights Approach

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: Training

There are still spaces available to join Together to develop your understanding of how to implement the embedding principle of a Children's Human Rights Approach in your work and organisation.

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What Happens Next?

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: Children of prisoners

What Happens Next is a helpful resource answering important questions such as

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Families Outside Documentary

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: Children of prisoners

Families Outside has launched a documentary where they give a brief overview of their work and the support that they are able to give to families affected by imprisonment. The documentary is telling the real stories of people that have received support by Families Outside. It shows the materials and dedication that is given to each and every member of an affected family, whether they are a partner, sibling, child or parent of an incarcerated person.

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Minimum Income Guarantee

Date: 20th October 2025
Category: Child poverty

The Poverty Alliance highlights the Minimum Income Guarantee as possible solution against poverty in Scotland. In the light of the ongoing cost of living crisis, many households struggle with living in a secure, warm home and being able to feed themselves at the same time. With a minimum income, it should be made possible for every person in Scotland to have a solid foundation. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child identifies poverty as one of the main causes of infant and child death in the UK. To address this, it is essential that households across the country can live above the poverty line. The Scottish Government has committed to implement targeted policies and programmes to support disadvantaged children and tackle child poverty. A Minimum Income Guarantee may support reaching those goals and be a step towards fewer children living in poverty.

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