Date: 19th July 2012
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The NHS Health Scotland Equality team is looking for good practice examples and case studies around pregnancy and maternity services to share on the Equality team website.

Date: 17th July 2012
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care

UNICEF UK has launched a consultation on proposed updated standards for the Baby Friendly Initiative.

Date: 21st May 2012
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Framework describes those who are responsible for keeping children and young people safe. It establishes a set of competences and standards that everyone who has direct or indirect contact with children requires.

Date: 14th May 2012
Category: General measures of implementation, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Scottish Government has published its response to the consultation on a proposed Rights of Children and Young People Bill.

Date: 3rd April 2012
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

In Enquire's new film, young people share their views on how their school experience is affected by being in care, being a young mum, having Asperger's or other learning difficulties, and the support that has helped them get the most out of their education.

Date: 23rd March 2012
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Equal protection from violence

In a letter to the UK, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, urges more of a focus on rehabilitation of youth offenders.

Date: 19th March 2012
Category: Disabled children, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Scotland's first Carers Parliament will be held on Monday 1 October 2012 in the Scottish Parliament.

Date: 12th March 2012
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Young children taken into care in Scotland can suffer from long-term mental health problems which desperately need to be tackled according to a major charity.

Date: 20th February 2012
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities calls for civil society inputs on the implementation of the Article 9 on accessibility of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Date: 7th February 2012
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Parents should be banned from smacking their children because of the risk that "today's smack will become tomorrow's punch", the Royal College of Paediatrics has warned.

Date: 23rd January 2012
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Stonewall Scotland are looking for young lesbian, gay and bisexual people aged 11-19 to fill in their survey about what life is like for them at school.

Date: 20th January 2012
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The National Youth Worker of the Year Awards 2012 aim to celebrate and recognise outstanding service and performance by managers, youth workers and peer educators in the youth work sector.

Date: 3rd January 2012
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Enquire recently interview the Youth Commission on Bullying, a group of young people in the Scottish Borders who have been appointed to research the views of people in their community about bullying in all its forms, including racism, homophobia and cyber bullying.

Date: 9th December 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 makes provision for the implementation of secure accommodation authorisations. The draft regulations set out the process for the chief social work officer when deciding whether to implement or not a secure accommodation authorisation or remove a child from secure accommodation.

Date: 30th November 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) contains legally binding obligations in relation to the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health (art. 24).

Date: 21st November 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Disabled children

NHS Lothian are developing the Education Strategy for the National Managed Clinical Network (NMCN) for Children with Exceptional Healthcare Needs (CEN) for 2012 and 2013, this will be based on the education and training needs of professionals and parents.

Date: 28th October 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Doctors of the World UK is part of the Médecins du Monde network, an international aid organisation that provides medical care and gives a voice to vulnerable people. They are currently running an e-petition asking the UK Government to uphold the rights of vulnerable refugees to access healthcare regardless of ability to pay.

Date: 7th October 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

If you are a Getting it right practitioner or lead professional, you can find out lots of help and information at the online forum Community of Practice.

Date: 19th September 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Proposals for a new national mental health strategy bringing together work to improve mental health services and mental health improvement.

Date: 16th September 2011
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Inequality is a massive topic and one that has come more into focus recently with the economic downturn, the gap between wages of the richest and poorest and riots in many of our larges cities. Some of the issues being discussed in the forum will be: