Minimum age: Balancing child protection and participation

Date: 27th November 2017
Category: General measures of implementation, General principles, Age of criminal responsibility

On Universal Children's Day, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published findings on differences in legal minimum ages to help the EU and its Member States eliminate inconsistencies, protection gaps and seemingly arbitrary restrictions resulting from different age thresholds.

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Fuel Poverty Strategy

Date: 27th November 2017
Category: General principles, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Social security

Scottish Government has launched a public consultation on its new draft Fuel Poverty Strategy. The consultation seeks views on proposals to tackle and diminish fuel poverty in Scotland.

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Guidance on the Presumption of Mainstreaming

Date: 27th November 2017
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Scottish Government has written guidance that all local authorities, schools and teachers will be required to follow. This is an opportunity for a public consultation on the guidance.

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New General Comments on human rights of children migrants

Date: 27th November 2017
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children, Children in situations of exploitation, General measures of implementation

New 'General Comments' are available on the human rights of children in the context of international migration.

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Domestic abuse and inequality

Date: 27th November 2017
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Protection from abuse or neglect

This seminar looks at current dimensions of women's inequality and links them up with constraints on women's and children's space for action.

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National Youth Work Awards 2018 – nominations now open

Date: 27th November 2017
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Nominations for the National Youth Work Awards 2018 are now open. The National Youth Work Awards will celebrate youth work and the youth workers who make a difference every year in the lives of young people.

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Equally Safe Delivery Plan published

Date: 27th November 2017
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Protection from abuse or neglect

Scottish Government have published a Delivery Plan to support Equally Safe, Scotland's Strategy for preventing and eradicating violence against women and girls, which was published in 2014 and updated in 2016.

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The EU Withdrawal Bill and the Charter of Fundamental Rights: Committee Stage Debate, 21st November 2017

Date: 20th November 2017
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

Tomorrow MPs debating the EU (Withdrawal) Bill will decide the fate of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. In its current form the Bill proposes abandoning the Charter despite "copying and pasting" the rest of EU law onto the UK statute book. Several amendments have been proposed which aim to save the Charter and it is these which shall form the core of tomorrow's debates.

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New Together briefings on Brexit

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, General measures of implementation

Together has been continuing its work on Brexit and its implications for children's rights protection.

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New Minister for Childcare and Early Years appointed

Date: 17th November 2017
Category: General measures of implementation

Maree Todd MSP has been appointed the new Minister for Childcare and Early Years by the First Minister.

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