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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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  • 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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  • Ruby boots: civvy street buddies for forces children

    Date: 18th December 2023
    Category: Special protection measures

    Ruby Boots is a mentorship programme by Forces Children Scotland to provide buddy mentors for young people who have a parent who has left the armed forces. Read on to find out more about the programme!

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  • Children bring a case against 33 European states on climate and their rights

    Date: 17th November 2023
    Category: Special protection measures, General measures of implementation, General principles, Civil Rights and Freedoms

    The case, lodged in 2020, was brought by six Portuguese children against 33 European states. The applicants demand that states uphold their legal duty to reduce fossil fuel-related emissions and prevent climate harms.

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  • Your views on Additional Support for Learning (ASL) in Scotland (1)

    Date: 17th November 2023
    Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Special protection measures

    Closing date: 31st December 2023

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  • Jade’s Law to be introduced for the better protection of children from violence

    Date: 5th October 2023
    Category: Special protection measures

    The UK Government has announced that the Victims and Prisoners Bill will be amended to further protect children from domestic abuse and violence. Jade’s Law will be introduced, named after a victim of domestic violence and her family who campaigned for greater protection of children and for their best interests to be always considered.

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  • University of Strathclyde announced as a member of the global Justice Action Coalition

    Date: 11th August 2023
    Category: Child justice system, Special protection measures

    The University of Strathclyde has been announced as a member of the United Nations Justice Action Coalition, a partnership national governments, UN agencies and international organisations. This global coalition was established to champion equal access to justice worldwide, and to meet the distinctive rights and needs of children.

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  • Migration Bill: Lords reinsert child detention limits

    Date: 17th July 2023
    Category: Special protection measures, Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

    BBC has reported the the House of Lords has rejected an attempt by the UK Government to extend the amount of time children can be detained in its migration bill.

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  • UK Government called on to bring home British families from Syria

    Date: 17th July 2023
    Category: Special protection measures, Civil Rights and Freedoms

    Civil Society Organisations have called on the UK Government to repatriate British families who are being unlawfully detained in northeast Syria, the majority of detainees being children under 10 years old.

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  • New policy report on the Promise to infants and babies

    Date: 25th April 2023
    Category: Special protection measures

    The NSPCC has just published a report on the Promise, identifying practical changes that can be made to bring the voice and needs of infants (age 0-3) to the forefront of Child Protection Orders and Children’s Hearing system referrals, a useful resource for local authorities, health and social care partnerships and other organisations working to improve early help and support for children and families.

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  • Updated report on the impact of persuasive design in the digital environment on children’s wellbeing

    Date: 25th April 2023
    Category: Special protection measures

    Five years on from 5Rights’ initial report on the impact of persuasive design in the digital environment on children, there have been many regulatory and legislative advances in the tech industry yet no change in the exploitative nature of the relationship between tech and children. In this updated report, persuasive design features used in new products such as TikTok and BeReal, are examined in relation to their impact on childhood.

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  • Scholarship opportunity for people with justice experience

    Date: 15th September 2022
    Category: Special protection measures, Child justice system

    The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) is providing a scholarship for their Postgraduate Certificate on Children and Young People in Conflict with the Law at the University of Strathclyde. The Scholarship is open to people of all ages who have experience of the justice system.

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  • Improving victims’ experience of the justice system

    Date: 1st August 2022
    Category: Special protection measures

    Closing date: 19th August 2022

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  • Solitary confinement, torture and children: minimum standards

    Date: 7th July 2022
    Category: Special protection measures

    Certain detention practices, for example in Scottish prisons, may amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (CIDT). This briefing sets out the minimum threshold for a finding of torture or CIDT in detention, in breach of children’s rights.

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  • New reports on Scotland’s Barnahus model

    Date: 1st October 2021
    Category: Child justice system, Special protection measures

    A new report outlining the developments in national policy, practice and research to inform Scotland’s Baranhus model has been published. Alongside this, Scottish Government circulated its vision of the Barnahus model, detailing how it should be implemented and the values that should underpin the model.

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  • Launch of Children's Rights and Inclusion Strategy

    Date: 9th December 2020
    Category: Special protection measures, Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

    The Strategy focuses on ensuring children and young people feel able to speak openly and honestly in children’s hearings, that their views are given real weight in the decision-making process and that they feel empowered and have ownership of their rights.

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  • COVID-19 pushed victims of child trafficking and exploitation into further isolation

    Date: 6th August 2020
    Category: Special protection measures

    A new report by Save the Children has highlighted how the COVID-19 crisis has changed criminals’ usual models of trafficking and exploitation used on children and young people.

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  • Launch of Youth Justice Voices Newsletter and opportunities to get involved

    Date: 22nd July 2020
    Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Special protection measures

    ‘Youth Just Us’ is Staf’s steering group for its Youth Justice Project. The group has launched its monthly newsletter and the July edition includes the group’s art, information about how young people are coping during COVID-19 and what young people are doing to keep busy. The group is also looking for new members to join, to take part in a range of activities whilst creatively influencing change in the care and justice systems.

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  • Upstream Prevention Pack

    Date: 22nd July 2020
    Category: Special protection measures

    The Upstream Prevention Pack includes six leaflets which have up to date practical resources to help parents, carers and professionals prevent child sexual abuse.

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  • Together launches its State of Children’s Rights Report

    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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