Educational attainment gap data: Coalition calls for investment in vulnerable pupils

Date: 12th July 2016
Category: Inclusive education

The most recent figures on attainment and leaver destinations indicate that school leavers with Additional Support Needs (ASN) are more than twice as likely to be unemployed (15.1%) than those with no ASN (6.3%) nine months after leaving school.

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Action called for as six Health Boards fail to meet targets for children’s mental health treatment

Date: 12th July 2016
Category: Mental health

New figures have been published indicating that 6 out of the 14 Health Boards are failing to meet their targets (max 18 week wait) for access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

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Success for Stop the DLA Takeaway Campaign

Date: 12th July 2016
Category: Disabled children

The government has now scrapped the rules that previously stopped payment of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or Personal Independence Payment (PIP) when a child (under 18) was in hospital.

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Children call for right to vote

Date: 12th July 2016
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

Under-18s in the UK have protested against not being able to vote in the recent referendum on EU membership. The older demographic came out ahead of young voters who were overwhelmingly in favour of remaining part of the EU.

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Eurochild conference Declaration delivered by young people

Date: 12th July 2016
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Best interests of the child

From July 5-7th 2016, the children's rights community in Europe gathered in Brussels to answer the question "Why Europe needs to invest in children" . From this conference, children and young people have published a declaration entitled "Doers should start speaking, speakers should start doing" .

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CRC elections, Vice Chair Amal Aldoseri re-elected

Date: 12th July 2016
Category: Policies & procedures

On 30 June 2016, States met at the UN General Assembly in New York to elect nine people to serve on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

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New UN report criticises UK for disproportionate impact of austerity on children

Date: 12th July 2016
Category: Child rights impact assessments

Following the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's June 2016 Concluding Observations, a new set of Concluding Observations have also been released by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) for the UK.

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Scotland’s 5Rights Youth Commission Survey

Date: 12th July 2016
Category: Protection of privacy, Access to appropriate information

Scotland's 5Rights Youth Commission have recently launched an online survey to capture the experiences, thoughts and evidence about the digital world from young people in Scotland.

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Launch of Together Facebook page

Date: 12th July 2016
Category: General measures of implementation

Together warmly invites all our members, e-newsletter subscribers and beyond to 'like' and follow the new page!

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EU Referendum: Together response

Date: 29th June 2016
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

The decision to withdraw from the European Union will have significant implications for children and young people in Scotland and across the UK.

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