New Together job vacancies

Date: 8th May 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

Applications for Together's vacanices are now closed.

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Research published on family-friendly working places during economic crisis

Date: 8th May 2013
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

A survey investigating family-friendly working policies in companies in six European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, UK) finds that employers take family-friendly working seriously and have put in place a range of policies to support this, especially in areas such as flexible working and parental support.

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£4 Million Fund Created to Celebrate Commonwealth Games

Date: 1st May 2013
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Celebrate, a new £4 million fund set up to support Scots to celebrate their part in the Commonwealth before, during and after the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, has opened.

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Multimillion regeneration fund to boost disadvantaged communities in Scotland

Date: 30th April 2013
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A £25 million Regeneration Capital Grants Fund has been developed in partnership with local authorities and will help to transform disadvantaged areas across Scotland.

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Raising the minimum age of army recruitment in Britain

Date: 30th April 2013
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Child Soldiers International makes the case for raising the minimum age of army recruitment to 18 (currently set at 16) in the British armed forces, in a new report published in April 2013.

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£50 million investment into new Big Lottery Fund Trust in Scotland

Date: 29th April 2013
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A massive investment into a new trust by the Big Lottery Fund in Scotland this week is set to transform two priority areas of social care in Scotland.

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Ground-breaking Scottish Guardianship Service a model for others

Date: 26th April 2013
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The Scottish Guardianship Service, delivered in partnership between Aberlour Childcare Trust and Scottish Refugee Council, has helped to support more than 100 unaccompanied young people going through the asylum system, some of who are victims of trafficking.

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NGO Group for the CRC has become Child Rights Connect

Date: 24th April 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

To reflect the growth of their activities over the past 30 years, beyond the Convention on the Rights of the Child to all areas of child rights, the NGO Group for the CRC have changed their name to Child Rights Connect.

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Border Agency criticised for separating children from parents

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

The United Kingdom's Border Agency separated 200 children from their parents between 2009 and 2012, which caused them adverse effects such as emotional distress, nightmares, insomnia, weight loss and feelings of "extreme isolation".

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Teenager wins ruling on detention of 17-year-olds

Date: 24th April 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The right to contact an 'appropriate adult' now extends to 17-year-olds, after a teenager successfully challenged the law which treats 17-year-olds in police custody as adults, not children.

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