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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
The results of the Lockdown Lowdown survey have revealed that 96% of young people worry about the impact of coronavirus on their future, with 77% worried about their mental health and wellbeing. The Children’s Parliament survey indicates that girls are doing less well in boys in several ways, including their general mood, feeling bored, being worried and the feeling that they lack 'energy'.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
General principles
The changes by UK Government allow autistic people or people with learning disabilities to leave their home more than once a day, travel beyond their local area if this is important to their health and have carers who do not have to stay two metres away.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation, General principles
The University College London’s Integrated Legal Advice Clinic has launched a legal challenge regarding the recent COVID-19 guidance issued by the Department for Education which allows local authorities to depart from the usual statutory duties owed by children’s social services.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General measures of implementation, General principles
The Committee has urged countries to respect children’s rights when responding to the pandemic, noting that lockdown measures can have grave physical, emotional and psychological effects on children.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
General principles
World Vision conducted a consultation with 101 children and young people to help organisations better understand their experiences during the COVID-19 crisis; how they would like to contribute to stopping the spread of COVID-19; and how they can be supported, equipped, and encouraged.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General principles
The United Nations has produced guidance setting out the impact of COVID-19 on disabled people’s rights and daily lives. This has been produced as awareness of the attitudinal, environmental, and institutional barriers which disabled people may face can create a better response to COVID-19.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
UNICEF is conducting both short- and long-term research with the intention of using the findings to influence its practice and provide evidence to inform the work of other organisations.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
COVID-19 continues to impact the lives of children in a variety of ways and collecting information can aid the response to the current and future pandemics. Despite the need to understand, quantify, forecast and track COVID-19, data collection without ethical consideration can lead to negative outcomes for children who need support. This discussion paper examines what considerations need to occur and why.
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
Closing date: 22nd July 2020
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Date: 1st May 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles
Closing date: 1st January 2021
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Date: 9th April 2020
Category:
General principles
Together’s briefing acknowledged the unprecedented challenges for Scotland, the UK and wider world, but urged decision-makers to consider the human rights implications of emergency measures and the need to protect vulnerable children.
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Date: 9th April 2020
Category:
General principles, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Two surveys have been created asking children and young people to voice how they are feeling about the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. The surveys are key to finding out what children and young people need so that they can be supported effectively.
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Date: 9th April 2020
Category:
General principles
Closing date: 30th April 2020
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Date: 9th April 2020
Category:
Policies & procedures, General principles, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC
Closing date: 22nd July 2020
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Date: 11th March 2020
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Funding, General measures of implementation, General principles, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Special protection measures
More than 50 charities and experts contributed to the report which considers the extent to which children in Scotland are able to exercise their human rights as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
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Date: 12th February 2020
Category:
General principles, Respect for the views of the child
The report covers the main areas of progress on the 18 actions agreed during the third annual meeting of Cabinet members and children and young people on 5th March 2019.
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Date: 25th June 2019
Category:
General measures of implementation, General principles, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
The Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Bill received royal assent on the 11th June 2019. The (now) Act will increase the minimum age at which a child can be found criminally responsible from 8, the lowest in Europe, to 12 years old.
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Date: 25th June 2019
Category:
Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, General principles, General measures of implementation
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is now publishing on its website a table with the summaries of adopted decisions on individual communications under the Third Optional Protocol of the UNCRC and the follow-up status by States.
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Date: 25th June 2019
Category:
General measures of implementation, General principles, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC
Notes from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child roundtable have been published. The Round Table raised serious concern regarding the UN Budget crisis, which the roundtable refers to as an “attack to the Treaty Bodies” and the possible cancellation of the third session as having a “strong impact on the backlog of the work of the CRC Committee and other Treaty Bodies”.
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Date: 24th June 2019
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms, Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, General principles
The UN’s expert on racism and human rights has said that the UK Government’s policies exacerbate discrimination, stoke xenophobic sentiment and further entrench racial inequality.
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