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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Children’s rights journey animation

Date: 17th January 2023
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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.

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Say hello to the Integrated National Youth Work Outcomes and Skills Framework

Date: 17th January 2023
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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.

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‘This is me’ - A Child Impact Assessment toolkit

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

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Understanding Children’s Human Rights: A Guide for Elected Members in Scotland

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).

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