Date: 15th June 2013
Category:

The Scottish Government has announced a £3.15 million fund to help install a network of full-sized 3G pitches for youth football and rugby development across the country.

Date: 14th June 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Now in its sixth year, the Scottish Out of School Care Network's (SOSCN) annual out of school care workforce survey has been launched, and is an established and anticipated piece of research which allows a more informed picture of the workforce in out of school care.

Date: 14th June 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

Join the Human Rights Tour in Scotland as part of the British Institute for Human Rights (BIHR) events being held in 2013, to find out why you need human rights and why human rights need you.

Date: 14th June 2013
Category: Right to life, survival and development, Access to appropriate information

Europe needs to work closer together to help the victims of today's slavery; a message delivered through the new EU Civil Society Platform against trafficking in human beings.

Date: 13th June 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review, General measures of implementation

Albania and Spain both ratified Optional Protocol 3 of the UNCRC, on 29th May and 3rd June 2013 respectively. With these two new ratifications, the optional protocol now counts six States Parties!

Date: 13th June 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Despite official poverty statistics published on 13th June 2013 showing that the number of children living in relative poverty has fallen in Scotland between 2009-10 and 2011-12, Scotland's Deputy First Minister warned that there is no room for complacency.

Date: 13th June 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Children in Scotland warn of stagnation and not success on child poverty, after Scotland's Chief Statistician released the Poverty and Income Inequality figures for Scotland in the year 2011/12 on 13th June 2013.

Date: 12th June 2013
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) haspublished a Report on the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children in the United Kingdom.

Date: 10th June 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

UPR Info, together with 76 NGOs from all over the world, expressed concerns on the 10th June 2013 at Human Rights Council (HRC) 23rd session, about States' practice to modify Working Group Reports in order to weaken them, and called on the HRC President to issue a statement to end such practice.

Date: 6th June 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

Last week's 'learning session two' of the Early Years Collaborative was packed with activity - with speeches, a sing-along with fathers' group Dads Rock, and valuable inputs from local partners, sharing their stories.

Date: 3rd June 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

On 14th June 2013 Baroness Hale of Richmond, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the most senior female judge in the history of the country, will deliver the inaugural lecture of the Wales Observatory on Human Rights of Children and Young People.

Date: 3rd June 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

Member States will need to step up their efforts to improve childcare provisions, if the EU is to reach its 75% employment rate target by 2020, said the European Commission in a report released on the 3rd June 2013.

Date: 30th May 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

The new General comment No. 14 (2013) on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration (article 3, paragraph 1) is now available on the Committee's web site.

Date: 28th May 2013
Category:

Respectme are once again offering Youth Scotland youth groups the opportunity to apply for up to £1000 of respectme funding to promote anti-bullying activities during National Anti-Bullying Week!

Date: 28th May 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Aimed at young people aged 14 to 17 in Scotland, these Awards give young people the opportunity to work with a professional writer, helping them to improve their writing and learn more about the publishing industry.

Date: 28th May 2013
Category: Respect for the views of the child

This new blog site is an opportunity for those involved in working with young people to contribute their views, policy ideas and constructive criticism on a regular basis.

Date: 28th May 2013
Category:

The National Voluntary Youth Organisations Support Fund 2013-14 is now open for applications.

Date: 27th May 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

Eight new members were welcomed and a new Chairperson was elected as the Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its 63rd session in Geneva on the 27th May 2013.

Date: 24th May 2013
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

The UK has been criticised by the Human Rights Council for its low minimum age of criminal responsibility; the high numbers of children in prison; the increase in the use of restraints against children in detention and a lack of willingness by the Government to protect children from physical punishment in the home.

Date: 21st May 2013
Category: General measures of implementation, UK 1st periodic review

The Committee has now issued a call for evidence for the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill, and the closing date for written submissions is 26th July 2013.