Date: 16th November 2018
Category: Policies & procedures, Access to appropriate information
Author: Police Scotland

Police Scotland has launched a new Facebook channel designed for young people in Scotland which aims to promote children’s rights by providing young people with access to educational resources and a space to communicate with the Police.

Date: 7th November 2018
Category: Policies & procedures, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Age of criminal responsibility, Children in conflict with the law
Author:

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland has published a report on police custody that includes recommendations on safeguarding measure related to children and young people. The report outlines the assessments made during inspections of 17 custody centres about the treatment of and conditions for those detained in police custody centres across Scotland.

Date: 9th October 2018
Category: Policies & procedures, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, Civil Rights and Freedoms
Author: Human Rights Consortium Scotland

A new online guide for NGOs around strategic litigation has been launched by the Human Rights Consortium Scotland.

Date: 10th January 2017
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

The guidance on Children's Rights (Part 1, section 2) and statutory guidance on Children's Services Planning (Part 3) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 has now been published.

Date: 18th February 2014
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: CHILDREN 1ST

CHILDREN 1ST has published a report mapping current parenting information resources, including an online resource list with links.

Date: 24th October 2012
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Social Misfits Media

Unity Trust Bank and Social Misfits Media have published 'About that first tweet', a guide to social media for charities and social enterprises.

Date: 21st September 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

The Scottish Government has published its Spending Review 2011 and Draft Budget 2012-13. It sets out Scottish public spending plans for the next three financial years and targets investment to increase sustainable economic growth and transform public services.

Date: 1st October 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author:

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published its first Triennial Review, 'How fair is Britain?', reporting on equality, human rights and good relations in 2010.

Date: 29th September 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

This publication contains the latest statistics in relation to child protection, secure care accommodation and close support care accommodation.

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Children's Commissioner for Wales

This is an interactive game for children and young pepole on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Date: 1st September 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: CTVC

TrueTube is an online, multimedia resource which helps educators focus on hard to teach subjects. With a particular focus on English, RE, PSHE and Citizenship, TrueTube features over 70 hours of short-form, hard hitting pieces of media designed specifically to start discussion on a broad range of social topics: Faith and Conflict, Cyber Bullying, Human Rights, Gangs and Homelessness to name but a few.

Date: 9th August 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Child Poverty Action Group

The Children's Handbook Scotland is the comprehensive guide to benefit and tax credits where children are living away from their parents.

Date: 2nd August 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance

This new edition includes information from all NHS Board and Local Authority Commissioners as well as from most advocacy organisations. It details statutory and non-statutory spending on advocacy in the 2009-2010 year as well as giving a picture of the numbers of people accessing advocacy during that period.

Date: 1st June 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Susan Elsley

This report presents the findings from a scoping study into advocacy support for children and young people in Scotland.

Date: 24th May 2010
Category: Children with disabilities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures
Author: World Wide Web Consortium

Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? Be careful not to leave out information for some people in your audience. For example, if you say 'you can read it on the slide', you are probably excluding people who cannot see the slide.

Date: 2nd April 2010
Category: Policies & procedures
Author: Fife Voluntary Sector Children’s Forum

Fife is the first Local Authority to develop a Children's Rights Strategy and Action Plan. This was done in partnership with children and young people involving Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People - Tam Baillie - who came to Fife to consult with children.

Date: 1st April 2010
Category: Children with disabilities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Accessible Information Forum

This guide will tell you more about what Easy Read means, give you some top tips on how to do it and provide links to other useful publications which will give you more detailed information. The guide also lists some organisations who can produce your documents in an easy read format.

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures, UK 1st periodic review
Author: Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People

Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People has created five 'rights workshops' with creative extras to help children and young people understand more about their rights.

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Policies & procedures
Author: Scottish Government

A Baseline Report of the action research project in Angus to inform the development of Getting it right for every child and the work of the ADP/CPC to address the needs of Children Affected by Parental Substance Misuse (CAPSM).

Date: 1st March 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Policies & procedures
Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

This guidance has been launched to help local authorities ensure that their consultation with children and young people is meaningful, credible and commands the respect of children and young people, their parents/carers and the wider community.