Campaign for Savings Accounts System for Looked After Children

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

On January 1st 2011 child trust funds were abolished for all children. For looked after children, this system had provided a savings account and minimum contribution year-on-year to be accessed when becoming an adult and leaving the care system. Action for Children is campaigning for a savings account system to be reinstated.

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Landmark human rights ruling allows asylum mother to remain in UK

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Supreme court says deporting woman who lied on asylum application would infringe rights of her British children. Immigration authorities will have to listen to the views of children whose parents are facing deportation, the supreme court has said, in a landmark human rights ruling on the rights of children born to illegal immigrants.

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Human Rights and Child Poverty

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Mark Kelly is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Rural Childhood, Perth College UHI. He is currently working on an action-based research project promoting Article 12 of the UNCRC. Here Mark gives his comments on human rights and child poverty following a presentation by Sir Al Aynsley-Green, former Children Commissioner for England, at the Westminster Education Forum.

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UN Special Representative on Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises’ Draft Guiding Principles

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation

In October 2010, Edinburgh hosted the 10th International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions. At the end of the event, the 'Edinburgh Declaration' was launched to call for action to address the corporate abuse of human rights. As a result, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie, proposed draft "Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the United Nations 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework".

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Article 12 UNCRC Awareness Survey

Date: 7th February 2011
Category: Respect for the views of the child, General measures of implementation

The Centre for Rural Childhood based at the Perth College UHI, is seeking your assistance with an action-based research project promoting Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), namely the right of children to be heard and have their views respected in all matters affecting them.

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Allen Lane Foundation

Date: 7th February 2011
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The Foundation is interested in funding work which benefits people in the following groups, or generalist work which includes significant numbers from more than one such group: Asylum-seekers and refugees, Gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender people, Gypsies and Travellers, Migrant workers, Offenders and ex-offenders, Older people, People experiencing mental health problems, People experiencing violence or abuse.

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Henry Smith's Charity - Outings for Young People

Date: 7th February 2011
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Applications can be made for grants towards holidays or outings within the UK for children aged 13 and under who are from areas of high deprivation, are experiencing disadvantage, or those who have a disability.

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Ryvoan Charitable Trust

Date: 7th February 2011
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Ryvoan Charitable Trust awards grants to charities and community groups working in Scotland and welcomes applications for projects within the following areas: prevention of relief and poverty; advancement of education; advancement of health; advancement of human rights; promotion of equality and diversity; promotion of religious or racial harmony etc.

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The UK Poverty Rip Off: The poverty premium 2010

Date: 28th January 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The UK Poverty Rip Off campaign aims to raise awareness of the shocking fact that low income families are still paying more than better off families in the UK.

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Jennie S Gordon Memorial Foundation

Date: 26th January 2011
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Jennie S Gordon Memorial Foundation awards grants to the charities and community groups working in Scotland and welcomes applications for projects within the following areas: prevention of relief and poverty; advancement of education; advancement of religion; advancement of health; advancement of arts, heritage, culture, or science; relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

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