Creative Enterprise Fund (1)

Date: 23rd April 2013
Category:

Want to get into the creative industries? Do you have an enterprising idea or project? The Creative Enterprise Fund can offer awards of up to £200 for individuals or £750 for groups of three of more young people, where two thirds of any group are aged between 15-22.

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CashBack for Communities Youth Work Fund (1)

Date: 23rd April 2013
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YouthLink Scotland is delighted to announce the launch of the latest round of the CashBack for Communities Youth Work Fund 2013/14. The closing date for all submissions is 5pm on Friday 3rd May 2013.

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Booking open for Together's seminar in Aberdeenshire

Date: 22nd April 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

Booking is currently open for Together's 2013 State of Children's Rights seminar in Aberdeenshire.

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EU states slow to respond to human trafficking - 15% victims are children

Date: 19th April 2013
Category: Access to appropriate information

Only 6 out of the 27 EU Member States have fully transposed the EU Anti-Trafficking Directive into their national legislation, with the deadline having expired on 6th April 2013.

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Updated guidance on information sharing

Date: 19th April 2013
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

There has been an update from the Information Commissioner's office of guidance on information sharing between services under existing law where a child's wellbeing is at risk.

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Extra £10m for third sector organisations

Date: 18th April 2013
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Minister for Children and Young People, Aileen Campbell, has announced an extra £10m on top of the £20m third sector fund to be shared between 45 organisations working closely with children, young people and families.

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Introduction of the Children and Young People Bill to Parliament

Date: 18th April 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Three and four year old children will, for the first time in Scotland, be entitled to 600 hours of funded early learning and childcare through the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill, published on Wednesday 17th April 2013.

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Self-directed support: draft regulations and statutory guidance

Date: 17th April 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

A public consultation was released on 17th April 2013 on the draft regulations on Carers (Waiving of Charges for Support) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 to accompany the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013.

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Youth Work sector urged to respond to Community Learning and Development Statutory Instrument Consultation

Date: 16th April 2013
Category: Respect for the views of the child

Following some informal discussions with Civil Servants, it has become clear that as yet there has been a poor response from our sector to the Requirements for Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations 2013 consultation.

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UNICEF launches the latest in its report card series

Date: 11th April 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation

UNICEF has launched the Innocenti Report Card 11: Child well-being in rich countries - a comparative overview ' which provides an update to the data found in the previous Report Card 7 which was published in 2007.

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