Young People to Shape the Future of Their Schools

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Following the Deputy First Minister's September announcement of a major governance review into the way schools are run, the review is seeking direct input from children and young people themselves.

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Annual Report 2015-16

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: General principles

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has published its Annual Report for 2015-2016. In a shifting constitutional landscape, Scotland remains on a generally positive path in advancing human rights, but significant challenges and gaps continue to be felt.

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Annual report 2015/16 and film published

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: Awareness-raising

The Commissioner and his team produce an annual report each year to tell people what they have been doing - alongside the report, the office has produced a film made by young people who chose what they felt would be interesting.

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National baseline assessment on Business and Human Rights published

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: General principles

The national baseline assessment of the current state of affairs in Scotland in relation to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights has now been published on the SNAP website, along with an invitation to provide comments and responses through a survey.

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England should follow Scottish and Welsh example on children's rights

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: Social security

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has welcomed the Government's Children and Social Work Bill as including significant enhancements of the rights of children in England and Wales, but recommends that Parliament take the opportunity presented by the Bill to enhance the protection of children's rights.

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Prevent Strategy targets children with no links to terrorism

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: Child justice system, Protection of privacy

The UK government's Prevent strategy is targeting broad groups of children who have no links to terrorism, according to a new report by Open Society Justice Initiative.

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U-Report – hearing from children and young people

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: Respect for the views of the child

U-Report is an anonymous messaging service that allows children to speak out on issues that matter. New questions are sent out every week, to which live results on what children around the country are thinking on that topic.

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LGBT Youth Scotland Want to Hear Stories of Homelessness

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: Freedom of association and peaceful assembly, Child poverty

LGBT Youth Scotland's Housing and Homelessness Youth Commissioners want to hear from LGBT young people who have experience of homelessness. They are gathering young people's stories to help evidence the need for a National Strategy that recognises the role discrimination plays in increasing the risk of homelessness.

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A Blueprint for 2020: The Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: Inclusive education

The government are almost doubling the free entitlement in the Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) provision to 1140 hours per day by 2020. This consultation will help support the development of these policy approaches.

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New National Health and Social Care Standards

Date: 1st November 2016
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Following on from the consultation of the National Care Standards in 2014, the next phase of the National Care Standards Review is to develop a set of Standards linked to the overarching Principles which were approved by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport in February 2016.

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