Date: 1st February 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Citizens Advice Scotland

Citizens Advice Scotland's new report, Being Young Being Heard, outlines the impact of the recession on young people in Scotland in their own words. The report shows that the effect of the recession has been that too many young people have ended up in a place where their potential is going to waste.

Date: 1st February 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: ChildLine

This new resource offers practical advice and guidance to children and young people who are being bullied. It is designed to give them the confidence to look at their options and make better choices when dealing with bullying situation. Aimed at 12 to 18 year olds, the booklet was developed with ChildLine and children and young people.

Date: 1st February 2011
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Human Rights Consortium Scotland

Human Rights Consortium Scotland has published its manifesto which asks prospective Scottish MSPs to explicitly support the human rights agenda and specifically the design and delivery of public services based on the human rights principles of Fairness, Respect, Equality, Dignity and Autonomy.

Date: 31st January 2011
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Author: Human Rights Watch

This 21st annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2010 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.

Date: 28th January 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Scottish Government

The Scottish Government has published the responses received to the consultation on tackling child poverty in Scotland.

Date: 15th January 2011
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Author: Various

The Right Stuff magazine was designed and written by more than 30 under 18 year-olds from across England, with the aim of promoting young people's interest in children's human rights and encouraging them to take action to achieve change for children.

Date: 11th January 2011
Category: Refugee and asylum seeking children
Author: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

This information pack covers a range of important topics, such as asylum-seekers and detention, refugees and social and economic inclusion, refugees and violence, internal displacement, forced returns and stateless persons.

Date: 11th January 2011
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Author: Scottish Government

The Scottish Government's Getting it right for every child team has published a series of practice briefings for practitioners and managers involved in providing services for children and young people.

Date: 7th January 2011
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Author: UNICEF

An exciting, new secondary school teaching resource to support the teaching of Citizenship and PSHE. Based on Article 27 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - the right to a decent standard of living - this thought provoking resource explores global citizenship and economic well-being.

Date: 10th December 2010
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Author: Equality and Diversity Forum

This report is the result of a pilot project exploring how voluntary organisations that work in the equalities field are using human rights concepts, language and tools in their work.

Date: 3rd December 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: UNICEF

Whether in health, in education, or in material well-being, some children will always fall behind the average. The critical question is - how far behind? Is there a point beyond which falling behind is not inevitable but policy susceptible, not unavoidable but unacceptable, not inequality but inequity?

Date: 3rd December 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Scottish Government

The Scottish Government's National Child Protection Guidance and the Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) approach provides a national framework for agencies and practitioners at local level to draw up and agree on their ways of working to promote the welfare and safety of children and young people.

Date: 1st December 2010
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Author: National Equality Partnership

This report explores how groups and individuals can use International Human Rights declarations and Human Rights law to challenge unfair decision making and to forge more collaborative ways of working in a pan-equality framework to extend the parameters of equality.

Date: 19th November 2010
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation, UK 1st periodic review
Author: Children’s Rights Alliance for England

The State of Children's Rights in England is the first independent assessment of the coalition Government's record on children's human rights. This unique report brings together official statistics and research evidence relating to children's rights. It summarises budget announcements relating to children and families, as well as legal developments, over the past 12 months.

Date: 10th November 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: ChildLine

You can now watch up to nine ChildLine videos which have been translated into British Sign Language (BSL). The videos tackle issues such as bullying, neglect or family relationships.

Date: 2nd November 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Children's Rights Director for England

Before Care, the latest report by Children's Rights Director for England, Dr Roger Morgan, is a small but significant survey of 50 children, from different authorities across the country, who recently entered the care system. It provides first hand accounts of children's experiences before entering care and raises concerns about how ill informed and unprepared some children are when they come into care.

Date: 1st November 2010
Category: Equal protection from violence
Author: The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research

The review draws on available sources of data from administrative sources (recorded crime, criminal proceedings, school exclusions, referrals to the Children's Hearings System) and from the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey to construct a picture of what is known about youth violence using official data sources.

Date: 1st November 2010
Category: Children in situations of exploitation
Author: Waverley Care

In recognition of World Aids Day on 1 December, Waverley Care has produced a series of resource sheets to help young people think about their own attitudes and challenge misconceptions about HIV and Aids.The aim of this work is to minimise onward transmission and break down barriers of stigma and discrimination.

Date: 1st November 2010
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Author: UNICEF

The overall goal of the toolkit is to support UNICEF and their partners in implementing key provisions of the CRC relating to children in conflict with the law, specifically: reducing children's contact with judicial proceedings and ensuring that deprivation of liberty of children in conflict with the law is actually used as a last resort, decreasing the number of children deprived of liberty.

Date: 1st November 2010
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Action for Sick Children Scotland

Over the past three years Action for Sick Children (Scotland)'s Children and Young People in and leaving Care project has examined the healthcare needs and issues of children and young people in care. The development of a toolkit to help meet these needs is now complete with the addition of six podcast interviews with relevant healthcare professionals, examining their role and promoting best practice.