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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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Date: 9th February 2024
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation
Closing date: 14 February 2024
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Date: 9th February 2024
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Closing date: 11 March 2024
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Date: 9th February 2024
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Closing date: 21st April 2024
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Date: 9th February 2024
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Closing date: 22nd April 2024
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Nutrition
This UN Human Rights Day, Together is celebrating the right to food and the vital services provided by Magic Breakfast, who delivers free breakfasts to school children facing hunger every day. Read this blogpost by Magic Breakfast’s Finlay Allmond, as he explains the importance of a rights-based approach to Scotland’s food system.
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation
Members of the End Child Poverty coalition in Scotland, alongside 150 other organisations including Together, are urging the First Minister Humza Yousaf to - as a first step - deliver on his commitment to increase the Scottish Child Payment to £30 per week.
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Closing date: 31st December 2023
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Date: 17th November 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The pledge at the heart of Obesity Action Scotland’s new campaign is ‘Child healthy weight matters to me’. The campaign focuses on the need to address growing levels of overweight and obesity in children in Scotland.
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Date: 6th September 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
The SHRC is issuing a joint report with other national human rights institutions and equality bodies to inform the CRPD into the human rights of disabled people in the UK. Read on to find out how the situation has developed since the CRPD’s inquiry in 2016.
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Date: 11th August 2023
Category:
General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The Scottish Government has commissioned the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS) to conduct independent research to gather evidence to inform decision making about how best to deliver children’s services in Scotland. Findings will be used to inform the National Care Service and the future of children’s services and are due to be released in October. Read on to find the most recent Interim Report.
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Date: 17th July 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Health and health services
July began with Alcohol Awareness week and Alcohol Focus Scotland’s #InYourFace campaign showed the powerful impact that alcohol marketing has on children. You can still check out loads of great resources and hear what children and young people have to say about alcohol advertising in Scotland.
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Date: 17th July 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
CRIN have released a position paper on the Draft EU regulation on the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products, urging the EU to uphold children’s rights by making them central in the new regulations.
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Date: 17th July 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation
Closing date: 25th August 2023
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Date: 16th June 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has adopted a new General Comment 26 on children’s right to a healthy environment. The final text will be shared next month ahead of the General Comment’s official launch in September 2023.
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Date: 25th April 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
First Minister Humza Yousaf confirmed the delay to limiting alcohol marketing in Parliament last week due to concerns being raised within the industry. This is just after the closing of a Scottish Government consultation on restricting alcohol advertising, to which children’s rights organisations, including Together, responded highlighting children and young people’s concerns around the impact of alcohol on their lives.
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Date: 28th March 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Right to life, survival and development
Deadline: 20th April 2023
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Date: 8th March 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Scottish Government is seeking views on proposals to restrict alcohol advertising and promotion. Together’s response highlights the children’s rights issues and repeated calls from children and young people about reducing the visibility and harmful impact of alcohol on their lives.
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Date: 8th March 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Deadline: 30th April 2023
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Date: 8th March 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
In ‘the Opportunity is now’, researchers explore concerns and aspirations for the health and social care sector in Scotland from interviews taken with key stakeholders and across the sector. Opportunities for improvement that were identified include the National Care Service and incorporation of human rights.
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