Report drawn from consultation of children on investment in their rights

Date: 13th October 2015
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Child Rights Connect

The 2015 Centre for Children's Rights, Queen's University Belfast partnered with the Child Rights Connect Working Group on Investment in Children to conduct a consultation of how children think that governments should invest in their rights. In the end, almost 2,700 children from more than 70 countries were involved through surveys and interviews.

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Children and young people ‘Looked after at home’ in Scotland

Date: 6th October 2015
Category: Looked after children
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

CELCIS has published a series of reports exploring the unique issues for children and young people looked after at home in Scotland.

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Unicef launches new Rights Respecting Schools Award websites

Date: 29th September 2015
Category: Awareness-raising, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General principles
Author: UNICEF UK

A Unicef UK Rights Respecting School is a community where children's rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. Children and young people and the school community learn about children's rights by putting them into practice every day. Unicef have recently launched a new Rights Respecting Schools website, as well as a new Scotland-specific resource called the Child Rights Launchpad.

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National Care Leavers Week Scotland 2015

Date: 29th September 2015
Category: Awareness-raising, Looked after children
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

National Care Leavers Week is fast approaching! It will be a week-long celebration of the contributions of Care Leavers Across Scotland. This year's theme is 'Looking to the future'.

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Better Movers and Thinkers

Date: 10th September 2015
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities
Author: Education Scotland

The Better Movers and Thinkers (BMT) Resource on the Education Scotland website introduces an approach to learning and teaching in Physical Education to develop the ability of all children and young people to move and think in a more cohesive way.

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Playing Together: youth work and play work

Date: 21st July 2015
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Recreation, play and cultural activities
Author: Youthlink Scotland

The YouthLink Scotland Policy Forum has been working to explore the commonalities in national policy for youth work and play. They have prepared a briefing paper and are requesting YouthLink Scotland members to share their experiences.

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Exploiting, Exploited: A national discussion on child sexual exploitation and radicalisation

Date: 21st July 2015
Category: Children in situations of exploitation, Protection of privacy, Respect for the views of the child
Author: roshni

On the 20th of May 2015 roshni hosted an event which brought together minority ethnic young people and policymakers to discuss child sexual exploitation and radicalisation. A briefing has been produced detailing the main themes emerging from discussions and recommendations for future work.

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Free Training: youth-led research, supporting young people to tackle sectarianism

Date: 21st July 2015
Category: Training
Author: Youthlink Scotland

Free full day training sessions will be available for youth workers who would like to know more about supporting young people to undertake research into issues that affect them and their communities.

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New films show power of human rights to improve people’s health and care

Date: 23rd June 2015
Category: Health and health services
Author: The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland

The Scottish Human Rights Commission, the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) and NHS Health Scotland have joined forces to launch a series of short films highlighting the power of human rights to improve people's health and the care and support they access.

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Online Safety Workshops for Parents, Volunteers and Staff

Date: 23rd June 2015
Category: Children in situations of exploitation, Parental guidance, Protection of privacy
Author: Respectme

YouthLink Scotland is working with Respectme to support the delivery of free online safety workshops for parents, volunteers and staff within the youth work sector.

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