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  • New Report: Poverty-proofing for families in or on the edges of care

    Date: 6th September 2023
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Child poverty, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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    New research by One-Parent Families Scotland has revealed the detrimental financial and emotional impact of poverty on a family when a child enters care and if they return from care, as well as a gap in policy responses and service delivery. 

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  • New report: ‘The State of Our Rights’

    Date: 11th August 2023
    Category: Additional support for learning, Special Protection Measures
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    SCLD has launched a new report called 'The State of Our Rights: The human rights issues facing people with learning disabilities in Scotland (2021–2023) and a route map for change'. The report contains some recommendations for consideration concerning the development of the New Human Rights Bill for Scotland. 

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  • New guidance to recognise and stop criminal exploitation in children

    Date: 11th August 2023
    Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Basic Health and Welfare
    Author: Scottish Government

    Teachers, social workers, police officers and NHS staff are being urged to look out for early warning signs that children are being recruited by serious organised crime gangs.

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  • Training: New ways for families

    Date: 11th August 2023
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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    What do children need when parents separate? The online training and coaching programme New Ways For Families is now available in the UK following a pilot exercise in Scotland conducted by Shared Parenting Scotland.

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  • New report: National Children’s Charter for school age childcare in Scotland

    Date: 17th July 2023
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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    A Place in Childhood and Scottish Government worked together with children, co-designing a National Children's Charter for school age childcare.

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  • New research: Teenagers and public space

    Date: 17th July 2023
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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    Discover the voices and perspectives of Scottish teenagers in APiC’s latest report, which delves into their needs and aspirations concerning public spaces. The findings centre around antisocial behaviour, the challenges faced by young people in their communities, and their innovative solutions.

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  • Key Principles for Climate Justice Litigation

    Date: 17th July 2023
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms
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    Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation Practice project has produced a set of Key Principles for Climate Justice Litigation and accompanying child-friendly toolkits, highlighting the integration of child rights into strategic litigation practices. These principles serve as a guide for litigators and advocates working on climate justice child rights cases, covering everything from scoping and planning to implementation and extra-legal advocacy.

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  • New book for younger children: Let’s Explore our Rights

    Date: 19th June 2023
    Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
    Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland (CYPCS)

    “Let’s Explore Our Rights” supports young children to learn about their human rights, aiming to support early years practitioners to spark first conversations about human rights with very young children.

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  • New UNCRC web-based resource

    Date: 19th June 2023
    Category: General measures of implementation
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    A new UNCRC web-based resource is now available! Understanding Children's Human Rights: A Guide for Public Services in Scotland has been created by the Improvement Service in collaboration with Children's Parliament, Education Scotland and Together.

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  • Children’s views on AI – a new report from Children’s Parliament

    Date: 19th June 2023
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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    Children’s Parliament, in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute and the Scottish AI Alliance, has been working with a group of children from across Scotland to find out how they interact with AI, what they think the possibilities and risks are for the use of AI for children in Scotland, and how they think children’s views and ideas should be included in AI development and policy making. 

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  • New podcast: Let’s Talk About… babies’ rights in Scotland

    Date: 19th June 2023
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
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    Starcatchers' CEO Rhona Matheson chats children's rights and the progress of babies’ rights in Scotland with former Children's Commissioner, Bruce Adamson.

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  • First phase of Starcatchers' Voice of the Child research project published

    Date: 19th June 2023
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms
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    Starcatchers has just published an executive summary of the findings of the first phase of its Voice of the Child research project, looking ahead to phase 2.

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  • Research launch: Child Rights Budgeting in Scotland - Recommendations for Fulfilment of Legal Obligations

    Date: 29th May 2023
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare
    Author: University of Edinburgh

    Today, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s LLM in Human Rights Law, we are launching a timely report on Child Rights Budgeting (CRB), which will be an essential part of turning the aspirations of the UNCRC (Scotland) Bill into lived experience for children and young people across Scotland.  In partnership with Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights), students from the LLM in Human Rights Law have undertaken a comprehensive study to explore how children's rights can be effectively integrated into budgetary processes, drawing on international and domestic examples to identify successful legislative and policy approaches. By examining existing literature and addressing CRB issues head-on, this report offers invaluable insights to help the Scottish Government fulfil its forthcoming obligations under the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill.

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  • New Report highlighting children and young people’s experiences of mental health

    Date: 25th April 2023
    Category: Mental health
    Author: see me

    This latest report examines children and young people’s experiences of mental health stigma and discrimination. It focuses on the interactions between young people and adults, particularly parents and carers, teachers and health care professionals.

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  • New research reveals the positive life-changing impacts of youth theatre participation

    Date: 25th April 2023
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Recreation, play and cultural activities
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    Youth Theatre Arts Scotland (YTAS) and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) teamed up to carry out research into the long-term impacts of participation in youth theatre on participants’ professional and personal lives. The findings reveal the valuable impact of youth theatre experience on participant’s personal and professional lives and is a great resource for theatre organisations looking for proof of their impact.

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  • Counselling service for disabled children and young people

    Date: 28th March 2023
    Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Mental health, Children with disabilities
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    TalkTime Scotland offers free professional counselling to anyone aged 12-25 who is physically disabled or has a long-term physical health condition. It offers weekly sessions of free professional counselling either face-to-face from its base in Leith, or via Skype for people who prefer not to travel.

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  • Working Together - equality and equity modules

    Date: 28th March 2023
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
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    It is essential that education professionals work effectively and meaningfully with parents to ensure that learning at school and home are connected. These modules have been co-developed with parents of children with a range of additional support needs to support education professionals to do this.

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  • Cost of the school day: ideas bank

    Date: 13th February 2023
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Child poverty
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    Aimed at children’s practitioners and school communities, this new resource includes 40 case studies demonstrating tried and tested ways to reduce costs in schools to ensure all children can take part in the school day.

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  • Guidance and toolkit: How to Advance Children’s Rights using Recommendations from United Nations and Regional Human Rights Monitoring and Review Processes

    Date: 13th February 2023
    Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, General measures of implementation
    Author: Save the Children

    Recommendations and Concluding Observations are essential tools for civil society to use in their monitoring of countries’ implementation of human rights treaties. We must know how to use these effectively through follow up and tracking measures to ensure countries are making progress to fulfil their human rights obligations and to advance children’s rights. Save the Children has created this useful how to guide which includes follow up ideas and useful recommendation tracking templates.

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  • Submissions to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s examination of the UK

    Date: 17th January 2023
    Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC
    Author: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People

    The UK’s children’s rights record will soon be reviewed by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s. Here you will find the Children’s Commissioner for England report and the Commissioners for the devolved nations report submitted to the UN Committee on their work to promote and protect children and young people within their jurisdictions as independent Children’s Rights Institutions.

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