Children’s Handbook Scotland

Date: 13th December 2016
Category: Social security and childcare
Author: Child Poverty Action Group

The Children's Handbook Scotland is a comprehensive guide to benefits and tax credits where children are living away from their parents, including children in kinship or foster care, children looked after by the local authority, and children at residential school, in residential care or in hospital.

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Key messages from the Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice

Date: 13th December 2016
Category: Children in conflict with the law
Author: Children and Young People's Centre for Justice

This briefing paper summarises key findings and messages from CYCJ's work over the past three years. It draws on research; feedback from practice and policy; and reflections about how to better support children and young people involved in, or on the edges of, offending to flourish.

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Young People’s Participation making a Difference – YEA: It’s a Film

Date: 29th November 2016
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Centre for Research on Families and Relationships

A new film has been launched by a team of young researchers exploring topics of interest to them and engaging with decision-makers to identify potentials for change.

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Free leaflets explain why children's rights matter

Date: 29th November 2016
Category: Awareness-raising
Author: Scottish Government

The Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland's office has several free copies of a booklet explaining the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to children and young people.

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Children's Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment - Development of a Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy for Scotland

Date: 29th November 2016
Category: Child rights impact assessments
Author: Scottish Government

This report details the findings of a children's rights and wellbeing impact assessment (CRWIA) carried out in relation to the Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy for Scotland.

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75 young people from across Scotland shape new pupil advice website

Date: 29th November 2016
Category: Additional support for learning
Author: Enquire

Enquire, the Scottish advice service for additional support for learning, is celebrating the launch of its new website Reach, developed with the input of 75 young people.

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Looked After Children and Young People – CYP 2014 Act Guidance

Date: 29th November 2016
Category: Looked after children
Author: Scottish Government

Both pieces of guidance have been published during November 2016 and relate to Part 10 (Aftercare) and Part 11 (Continuing Care) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.

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Write for the Children’s Commissioner’s Office: be one of their young bloggers

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author:

The Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland is looking for volunteers to find the most interesting content from across the web to share with other young people.

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Children and Access to Justice: National Practices, International Challenges

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General measures of implementation
Author: Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law has released a report on access to justice for children which compares practices from several different national jurisdictions, including Scotland.

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Position Paper - 'Information Sharing provisions: the way forward'

Date: 2nd November 2016
Category: Protection of privacy
Author: Clan Childlaw

Following the Supreme Court judgment in July which struck out the information sharing provisions of the Named Person Scheme, CLAN Childlaw has published a position paper on how Scottish Government should respond on the issue.

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