Date: 17th July 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author:

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.

Date: 17th July 2023
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms
Author:

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.

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.

Date: 19th June 2023
Category: General measures of implementation
Author:

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.

Date: 19th June 2023
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author:

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. 

Date: 19th June 2023
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Starcatchers' CEO Rhona Matheson chats children's rights and the progress of babies’ rights in Scotland with former Children's Commissioner, Bruce Adamson.

Date: 19th June 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms
Author:

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.

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.

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.

Date: 25th April 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Recreation, play and cultural activities
Author:

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.

Date: 28th March 2023
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Mental health, Children with disabilities
Author:

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.

Date: 28th March 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author:

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.

Date: 13th February 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Child poverty
Author:

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.

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.

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.

Date: 17th January 2023
Category:
Author:

Watch four young people on a ‘children’s rights journey’ through their community, interacting with representatives from various public authorities to learn about the practical ways that public authorities can respect children’s rights.

Date: 17th January 2023
Category:
Author:

Youth workers are encouraged to use the Framework when working with  young people. It seeks to help young people identify and track the skills they want to and have developed through their participation in youth work. It aims to provide a structure for reviewing and tracking these learning goals.

Date: 17th January 2023
Category: Children of prisoners
Author:

This toolkit is co-created with children and young people with lived experience of having a parent in the criminal justice system. It aims to make sure children and young people who have experienced having a parent in the criminal justice system get the support they need at the earliest opportunity. 

Date: 9th November 2022
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Together

Together, Children's Parliament, The Improvement Service and Education Scotland have collaborated to create this new resource aimed at Elected Members in Scotland who are interested in learning more about children’s rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Date: 9th November 2022
Category: Looked after children
Author:

Running alongside The Promise, Talking Hope aims to promote more hopeful conversations with and about young people supported by secure care services.