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  • New resource: Life Story in kinship care

    Date: 12th March 2024
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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    Life Story is a method used to record the details about children’s history and personal development. It is a record of their life in words, pictures and photos made by the children with help from their Kinship Carer. This resource aims to support children to tell their story, help Kinship Carers form stronger bonds with the children they care for and help children feel safer and more secure.

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  • New child-friendly resources on sibling contact

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
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    Families Outside has produced child friendly resources to help care-experienced children and young people who have a sibling in prison to know - and access - their rights to sibling contact.

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  • Resource on children and young people in conflict with the law: policy, practice and legislation

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: Special Protection Measures, Children in conflict with the law
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    This new resource provides the latest information on policy, practice and laws for practitioners and managers who work with children and young people in conflict with the law. There is information on a wide variety of themes, including children’s rights; risk management; mental health; diversity; restorative justice; adversity and trauma; and diversion from prosecution.

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  • Priority reading: children’s vision for human rights

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: General measures of implementation
    Author: Child Rights Connect

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) celebrates its 75th anniversary in December 2023. This significant milestone provides an important opportunity for world leaders to commit to improving the realisation of human rights in their countries and share ideas for a new vision for the future of human rights.

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  • New report considers benefits of incorporating the Convention against Torture into Scots Law.

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: General measures of implementation, Incorporation, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC
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    This report focuses on the gaps that persist in Scots law in the pursuit of eradicating all forms of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (CIDT). It highlights that despite the existing UK and Scottish implementation measures giving effect to the UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT), ensuring the general prohibition against torture warrants further attention and action in the Scottish context.

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  • New report looks at private businesses and the forthcoming Human Rights Bill

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms
    Author:

    This report discusses the current position in law regarding private businesses in Scotland and their human rights obligations.

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  • New report from Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare
    Author:

    The independent Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry’s listening project, Let’s Be Heard, is nearing the close of its national engagement phase. Since spring 2023, Let’s Be Heard has been gathering people’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic across Scotland. Ahead of the closing date later this month they have two interesting updates to share with you and a final call to those who may want to share their experiences with the Inquiry.

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  • New research: parents’ experiences and views on supporting early learning and development at home

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: Special Protection Measures
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    The focus of this research was on evaluating the effectiveness of current Scottish Government initiatives in supporting play and early learning for babies and young children living in poverty in Scotland. The research sought input from low-income parents and carers across Scotland to better understand their needs for fostering a positive home learning environment.

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  • Staying Connected Project: Care-Experienced children and young people with a sibling in prison or secure accommodation

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: Looked after children, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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    This research is about the significant impact on children and young people who are separated from siblings through care arrangement. It aims to address the gaps in knowledge around children and young people’s experience of sibling separation where their brother or sister is in prison or secure care.

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  • New Report: Progressing Rights at Children’s Hearings Scotland

    Date: 17th November 2023
    Category: Special Protection Measures
    Author: Children's Hearings Scotland

    This is Children’s Hearings Scotland’s (CHS) second Progressing Rights report on its activities relating to embedding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in their practice and system.

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  • Food and Fairness Report

    Date: 17th November 2023
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare
    Author: Children's Parliament

    Children’s Parliament in partnership with the University of St Andrews, School of Medicine delivered their Food and Fairness investigation which ran from March 2023 to June 2023. The main aim of the investigation was to explore children’s views and experiences in areas related to food, health, and fairness.

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  • AI and children’s rights: a guide to the transnational guidance

    Date: 17th November 2023
    Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, Special Protection Measures
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    This new resource from LSE academics Gazal Shekhawat and Sonia Livingstone gives guidance from transnational organisations and is aimed at organisations and academics concerned with the issue of AI and its effect on children’s rights.

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  • Lifelong Rights for Care Experienced People: new report

    Date: 13th November 2023
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
    Author: Who Cares? Scotland

    Who Cares? Scotland has just launched its lifelong campaign for Care Experienced people. Available data shows that Care Experienced people currently do not have the same life outcomes as their non Care Experienced peers. The Lifelong Rights Campaign is the commitment to change this.

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  • NEW child-friendly resource on the UN Concluding Observations

    Date: 30th October 2023
    Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms, UNCRC Optional Protocols and General Comments
    Author: Together

    Together has just launched a child-friendly resource explaining the recent UN Concluding Observations made by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child for the UK and Scottish Government. In partnership with Children’s Parliament, Scottish Youth Parliament and Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, Together consulted with #TeamScotlandUN in the creation of this child-friendly resource to explain to children and young people these important recommendations for the UK and devolved goverments, to better protect, respect and implement children’s rights and to support their ability to hold Scottish Government and other duty bearers to account. Together would like to send a huge “thank you” to the children and young people who provided us with valuable advice and feedback to help shape the resource.

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  • National bullying prevention month: FREE anti-bullying modules

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: Bullying, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author: Respectme

    It's National Bullying Prevention Month and our member Respectme, Scotland’s anti-bullying service, is offering FREE anti-bullying eLearning modules.

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  • New report on Care Experienced people and the Scottish Human Rights Bill

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
    Author: Who Cares? Scotland

    The Human Rights Consortium Scotland, with Who Cares? Scotland, has commissioned a new briefing paper on Care Experienced people and Scotland's new Human Rights Bill.

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  • Together’s consultation response to the new Human Rights Bill

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, General measures of implementation
    Author: Together

    The consultation for the new Human Rights Bill has now closed and you can find our submitted response, offering a children’s human rights perspective, here.

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  • New Guide: How to Write a Child-Friendly Document

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: Access to appropriate information, Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
    Author: Save the Children

    Children have a right to seek and receive information about things that affect them, especially about their human rights. To do this properly, content must be produced in a child-friendly way that is accessible, readable and approved by children. This how-to guide by Save the Children shows you how to create child-friendly versions of your work.

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  • New book: ‘Play and Health in Childhood: A Rights-Based Approach’

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: General measures of implementation, General principles
    Author:

    Upstart has launched a new book written by Julia Whitaker and Alison Tonkin, showing how having fun, experiencing pleasure and knowing joy in childhood are crucial to a child’s health and development.

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  • Together’s consultation response to the proposed Restraint and Seclusion (Prevention in Schools) (Scotland) Bill

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: Protection from abuse or neglect
    Author: Together

    Scottish Parliament recently held a consultation for a proposed Member’s Bill to ensure restraint and seclusion of children and young people in schools is only used as a last resort where there is an immediate risk of harm and using appropriate methods.

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