Improving employability support for single parents and carers in Scotland

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Child poverty

One Parent Families Scotland and Oxfam Scotland are calling for a new approach to employability support to help deliver on Scotland’s child poverty targets.

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Research discovers children’s right to play is in jeopardy

Date: 13th May 2021
Category:

Every child has a right to play under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It provides a life-enhancing daily experience for all children and is essential for children’s wellbeing and development. However, studies show schools are reducing the amount of playtime offered and children now have to be older to play alone.

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Tesco Community Grants now open for applications

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Funding

Charities and community organisations for local projects that focus on supporting children and families, and projects that tackle food poverty are invited to apply for funding.

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Calls to create an International Pandemic Treaty

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: COVID-19

Global leaders are calling for a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response, which would protect human rights in future pandemics.

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Supporting environmental human rights defenders

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Closing date: 30 th June 2021

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Discovering the future of Scotland’s schooling, education and learning

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Education, including vocational education

Over two online sessions children and young people, educationalists, academics, businesses, the third sector and Scottish Government were asked what is next for education in Scotland? Participants explored this question through the lens of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child being incorporated into Scots law.

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Children and families have their say through play

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Twenty-one families from LicketySpit’s Children and Families Network have shared their thoughts, feelings, ideas and experiences of different issues that affect them, through group play. Topics discussed include perceptions of COVID-19 restrictions, racism and discrimination, experience of the asylum system and more.

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New research report: ‘How do young people learn about sex?'

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Health and health services, UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Sex education relates to gender inequality, as the ways we learn about consent, pleasure and desire can be gendered and adhere to gendered stereotypes. It is for this reason, Zero Tolerance heard from 118 young people aged 18–25, on how they learnt about sex as teenagers.

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The Promise Scotland needs your input for Change Programme ONE

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Promise Scotland will publish its Change Programme by the end of May, but in the meantime, the organisation is asking for your input to ensure Change Programme ONE creates a transformative change.

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Blog: Children’s Hearings Scotland turns 50!

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Child justice system

The very first children’s hearing was held on the 15th of April 1971! Deputy Director of the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), Fiona Dyer, looks back and explores the hearing system and child-friendly justice.

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