Circle wins SSSC Care Accolade and Scottish 2011 Charity Award

Date: 11th July 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Circle is delighted to have won SSSC Care Accolade and Scottish 2011 Charity Award. Their work with children and families affected by parental imprisonment was recognised as an innovative example of organisations coming together to promote better outcomes for parents leaving prison and ultimately better outcomes for their children.

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Victoria Cares – Young Carers Social Media campaign

Date: 11th July 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Spurgeons, a children's charity based in England, recently ran an interesting social media campaign to tell, in real time, the true story of a 12 year old carer called Victoria.

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Cash for Kids – Radio Forth

Date: 11th July 2011
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Cash for Kids supports local charitable and voluntary projects that work directly with disadvantaged children. Support is offered for activities that address poverty, neglect, disability and distress affecting children across Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife.

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Children's rights must be central to the Bill of Rights Commission's work

Date: 7th July 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

The Rights of the Child UK coalition, all the major UK children's charities, and the children's rights alliances for England, Scotland and Wales have written to the Independent Commission on a Bill of Rights to urge them to champion the rights of children in their deliberations and seize the opportunity to embed and mainstream children's rights within the UK's constitutional arrangements.

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State of Children’s Rights report 2011

Date: 30th June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

Together has launched its consultation to find out the 'State of Children's Rights' in Scotland in 2011.

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E-survey of adults who helped to deliver a RIGHT blether

Date: 24th June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

York Consulting is conducting an e-survey of adults who helped to deliver a RIGHT blether: a national consultation with children and young people by Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People in 2010-11.

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Human Rights Council adopts complaints mechanism for children

Date: 22nd June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted the draft text of a complaints mechanism for children.

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respectme Grant Fund

Date: 20th June 2011
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National Anti-Bullying Week takes place across the UK and Ireland from 14 to 18 November 2011. To make the occasion, respectme, Scotland's Anti-Bullying Service and Youth Scotland want to encourage and support anti-bullying campaigning at a local level.

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Early Years and Early Action Fund

Date: 15th June 2011
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Inspiring Scotland has announced that the Early Years Early Action Fund is now open to applications. The aim of the Early Years Early Action Fund is to improve the outcomes for vulnerable young children, to help them achieve their potential.

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Daisy Chain Trust

Date: 14th June 2011
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This small grant-making trust supports children-related organisations in the Edinburgh, Lothians and Borders area, under the headings of Medical Care, Welfare and Education.

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