Launch of SRSG Violence against Children website

Date: 13th June 2011
Category: Equal protection from violence

The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Marta Santos Pais has launched a new website, which includes its own newsletter, region-specific information, and other useful resources, including a Children's Corner offering a series of child-friendly materials.

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Growing Up in Scotland

Date: 8th June 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The latest findings of a study shining a spotlight on the realities of life as a child in Scotland has been published.

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Complaints Mechanism: A step closer to adoption

Date: 8th June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

The establishment of a complaints mechanism for the CRC moved a step closer as the Chairperson of the Working Group presented his report, including a draft text to be adopted by the Council.

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Young Scotland's Got Talent Awards 2011

Date: 1st June 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Young Scotland's Got Talent will celebrate their first birthday with an awards ceremony to be held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 22 June 2011.

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Damages awarded to women trafficked into the UK as minors and 'held in slavery'

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

Four Nigerian women have been awarded damages after police failed to investigate their allegations that they were illegally trafficked into the UK as minors and subsequently 'held as slaves'.

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Impact of domestic abuse on school life

Date: 30th May 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

This week's topic on the Enquire blog explores the issues of children's rights and domestic abuse. This space helps children and young people to understand domestic abuse, and how to take positive action if it's happening to them.

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Funding available for youth activities on migration

Date: 30th May 2011
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The British Red Cross has announced that grants of between £50 and up to £1000 are available to help to support youth action activities that promote more positive attitudes towards vulnerable migrants and awareness of the Millennium Development Goals. The grants are available to schools, colleges, universities, youth groups and student groups working with young people aged 12 to 25.

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Round 2 of Short Breaks Fund now open

Date: 30th May 2011
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The Scottish Government has made the Short Breaks Fund available to help support and sustain Scottish carers, including young carers and kinship carers, through enabling better access to short breaks or respite care.

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Baily Thomas Charitable Fund

Date: 30th May 2011
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The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund, which is a registered charity established to support projects in the area of learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability, has announced that the next application date for grants is the 1st October 2011.

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What's childcare really costing you?

Date: 25th May 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

We all know that the cost of childcare is huge but what can be done about it? Recent research by the Daycare Trust estimate that it costs an average of £177 for a full time nursery place in Britain for a child under two - that's like paying another mortgage. It costs more in Scotland than anywhere else in the UK and as a country we pay the most in Europe (bar Switzerland) and our costs are one of the highest in the world.

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