Request for your participation: amplifying the voices of hidden homelessness in Scotland

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles

RSM UK is currently undertaking research for the Scottish Government with the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities research at Heriot-Watt University (I-SPHERE). They are keen to speak with people who have lived experience of hidden homelessness, either currently or historically.

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Barnardo's /Co-op co-design project with young people in Glasgow

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General principles

The Co-op and Barnardo’s have partnered up to tackle barriers to social mobility across the UK, with the aim of improving young people’s health, happiness, and access to opportunities. They are seeking to engage a group of young people in and around Shawlands to help them understand what other young people want to see improved and what they’d benefit from in their area.

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New report: cost of a child in Scotland

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: General principles, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

This report is the latest in a series – commissioned by Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland from the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. It builds on calculations which find that across the UK it cost at least £166,000 to bring up a child at a socially acceptable standard of living in 2023.

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UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls visits the UK

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: Violence against children, General principles

The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Ms. Reem Alsalem, made a 10-day visit to the UK in February. During this visit she emphasized that it’s crucial for the UK Government and devolved administrations to take immediate action to eradicate all forms of violence against women and girls.

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UN Committee requests information from Israel on children’s rights compliance

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: General principles, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Violence against children

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued an urgent request to Israel for additional information ahead of its forthcoming review of the country’s children’s rights record. The request for additional information is particularly in light of events since October 7, 2023. Israel is urged to provide updated information on various aspects concerning children's rights by June 15, 2024.

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Draft statutory guidance on the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: General measures of implementation, General principles

Closing date: 16 th May 2024

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New guidance on taking a children's human rights approach

Date: 9th February 2024
Category: General measures of implementation

This guidance from Scottish Government provides a brief summary of human rights, children’s rights and the UNCRC, it also raises awareness of the ambition for children’s human rights in Scotland and sets out the Scottish Government’s actions to implement the UNCRC to date. It provides information and resources to support you to take a children’s human rights approach to planning and delivery of services.

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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education

Date: 9th February 2024
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

This article explores whether young children's right to be heard, especially regarding education quality, has experienced a form of 'rights inflation'—an expansion beyond the legal framework or an interpretation surpassing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) text.

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Scottish Parliament to consult on Age of Marriage

Date: 9th February 2024
Category: General measures of implementation

The Scottish Government is actively reviewing the legal age of marriage following the recommendation from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to prohibit marriages involving individuals under 18 in Scotland.

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Northern Ireland governing bodies fail to consider children and young people’s rights in budget allocation

Date: 9th February 2024
Category: General measures of implementation

The Children’s Law Centre is challenging the Equality Commission over advice provided to relevant authorities in connection with the 2023-24 budget set by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris. This budget, implemented in the absence of a Stormont Executive, involved significant cuts to education and school funding.

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