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  • Fostering Network needs young advisors

    Date: 13th March 2024
    Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General principles

    The Fostering Network in Scotland is recruiting new members for their Young People's Advisory Board.

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  • Counting down to our new Strategic Plan!

    Date: 13th March 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation, General principles

    In just two weeks, Together will launch its new Strategic Plan for 2024-32. The new plan will guide everything that we do to ensure Scotland implements its latest ‘to do list’ from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.                              

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  • Families Outside peer support group

    Date: 12th March 2024
    Category: General principles, Special protection measures

    The Connecting Families team of Families Outside has rolled out peer support groups for family members affected by imprisonment across Scotland. The two peer support groups include one in Inverness for primary aged children affected by the imprisonment of a family member.

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  • The way forward for families fund

    Date: 12th March 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation, General principles

    The Way Forward for Families Fund (previously known as the Partnership Drug Initiative) is now open to applications from organisations that support children and families impacted by drugs and alcohol.

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  • Request for your participation: amplifying the voices of hidden homelessness in Scotland

    Date: 12th March 2024
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles

    RSM UK is currently undertaking research for the Scottish Government with the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities research at Heriot-Watt University (I-SPHERE). They are keen to speak with people who have lived experience of hidden homelessness, either currently or historically. 

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  • Barnardo's /Co-op co-design project with young people in Glasgow

    Date: 12th March 2024
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General principles

    The Co-op and Barnardo’s have partnered up to tackle barriers to social mobility across the UK, with the aim of improving young people’s health, happiness, and access to opportunities. They are seeking to engage a group of young people in and around Shawlands to help them understand what other young people want to see improved and what they’d benefit from in their area.

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  • New report: cost of a child in Scotland

    Date: 12th March 2024
    Category: General principles, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    This report is the latest in a series – commissioned by Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland from the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. It builds on calculations which find that across the UK it cost at least £166,000 to bring up a child at a socially acceptable standard of living in 2023.

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  • UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls visits the UK

    Date: 12th March 2024
    Category: Violence against children, General principles

    The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Ms. Reem Alsalem, made a 10-day visit to the UK in February. During this visit she emphasized that it’s crucial for the UK Government and devolved administrations to take immediate action to eradicate all forms of violence against women and girls.

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  • UN Committee requests information from Israel on children’s rights compliance

    Date: 12th March 2024
    Category: General principles, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Violence against children

    The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued an urgent request to Israel for additional information ahead of its forthcoming review of the country’s children’s rights record. The request for additional information is particularly in light of events since October 7, 2023. Israel is urged to provide updated information on various aspects concerning children's rights by June 15, 2024.

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  • Draft statutory guidance on the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill

    Date: 12th March 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation, General principles

    Closing date: 16th May 2024

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  • New guidance on taking a children's human rights approach

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation

    This guidance from Scottish Government provides a brief summary of human rights, children’s rights and the UNCRC, it also raises awareness of the ambition for children’s human rights in Scotland and sets out the Scottish Government’s actions to implement the UNCRC to date. It provides information and resources to support you to take a children’s human rights approach to planning and delivery of services.

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  • Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

    This article explores whether young children's right to be heard, especially regarding education quality, has experienced a form of 'rights inflation'—an expansion beyond the legal framework or an interpretation surpassing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) text.

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  • Scottish Parliament to consult on Age of Marriage

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation

    The Scottish Government is actively reviewing the legal age of marriage following the recommendation from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to prohibit marriages involving individuals under 18 in Scotland.

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  • Northern Ireland governing bodies fail to consider children and young people’s rights in budget allocation

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation

     The Children’s Law Centre is challenging the Equality Commission over advice provided to relevant authorities in connection with the 2023-24 budget set by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris. This budget, implemented in the absence of a Stormont Executive, involved significant cuts to education and school funding.

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  • Participation of civil society organisations in UN treaty review processes at risk

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms

    It is no longer mandatory for the UN to provide online participation for official UN meetings, including those held by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which will limit the direct participation of civil society organisations, children and young people in the UN Treaty Review process. The International Service for Human Rights has gathered over 220 signatures from civil society organisations including Together, endorsing a letter that advocates for ensuring live online mechanisms of participation are maintained.

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  • Next General Comment to focus on children’s right to access justice and effective remedies

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation, Special protection measures

    During its 95th session in January 2024, the Committee on the Rights of the Child decided to draft a General Comment on children’s right to access to justice and effective remedies.

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  • International Court of Justice makes judgement in South Africa v. Israel case

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation

    South Africa presented its case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The Order of 26 January 2024 by the International Court of Justice established that there is a real and imminent risk of irreparable damage to some of the rights asserted by South Africa and instructed Israel to prevent its military from committing acts which might be considered genocidal, to prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and to enable humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.

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  • Council of Europe publishes draft Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: General measures of implementation

    The Council of Europe’s Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) has decided to publish a draft of its Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. The UK has not yet indicated if it intends to become a signatory.

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  • Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation

    Closing date: 14 February 2024

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  • Call for views: Scotland’s commissioner landscape: a strategic approach

    Date: 9th February 2024
    Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    Closing date: 11 March 2024

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