Date: 16th May 2017
Category: Equal protection from violence

John Finnie MSP has launched a consultation on a proposed Bill on Equal Protection for children and young people.

Date: 16th May 2017
Category: Equal protection from violence

John Finnie MSP has launched a consultation on a proposed Bill on Equal Protection for children and young people. The Bill aims to remove the legal defence of "justifiable assault", bringing Scotland in line with UNCRC recommendations and with most other European countries.

Date: 2nd May 2017
Category: Equal protection from violence

Tam Baillie has renewed calls for the Scottish Government to bring an end to legislation allowing a defence of justifiable assault against children.

Date: 3rd April 2017
Category: Equal protection from violence

Angela Constance MSP has launched a consultation on the draft Delivery Plan for Equally Safe. The delivery plan sets out the actions to be undertaken by Scottish Government, COSLA and key partners.

Date: 10th January 2017
Category: Equal protection from violence

The French parliament has passed the Equality and Citizenship bill which promotes the ending of violence against children including corporal punishment.

Date: 29th June 2016
Category: Equal protection from violence

This NSPCC report compiles and analyses the most robust and up-to-date child protection data that exists across the 4 nations in the UK for 2016.

Date: 29th June 2016
Category: Equal protection from violence

This special report from the Global Initiative outlines progress to date towards universal prohibition and elimination of all violent punishment of children.

Date: 1st June 2016
Category: Equal protection from violence

The Scottish Government is being urged to amend the law to ensure that it is never acceptable to beat a child.

Date: 29th March 2016
Category: Equal protection from violence

An updated version of Equally Safe, Scotland's Strategy to prevent and eradicate violence against women and girls in Scotland, was published on March 23rd.

Date: 17th February 2016
Category: Equal protection from violence

The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children is inviting civil society organisations to take part in a consultation process aimed to inform and shape the Partnership's five-year strategy.

Date: 16th February 2016
Category: Equal protection from violence

Together has supported a letter to the Scotsman following an article on 13th February 2016, regarding the physical punishment of children. The article referred to questions asked of the Scottish Government by Alison McInnes MSP, which were answered on 10th Feburary by Minister for Children and Young People Aileen Campbell MSP.

Date: 24th November 2015
Category: Equal protection from violence

A new extensive & systematic research report calls for all physical punishment of children to be prohibited by law in Scotland, amongst other policy recommendations.

Date: 27th October 2015
Category: Equal protection from violence

The move to abolish the justification of 'reasonable chastisement' means Ireland has become the 20th EU member state, and 47th country, to outlaw physical punishment, either directly by outright ban, or indirectly, as in this case.

Date: 27th October 2015
Category: General principles, Equal protection from violence, Children in situations of exploitation

The Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee is seeking views on the general principles of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm Bill, a Scottish Government Bill which was introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 8 October 2015.

Date: 4th August 2015
Category: Equal protection from violence, Age of criminal responsibility

The UN Human Rights Committee has published its recommendations (Concluding Observations) to the UK on its implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which include equal protection from assault and raising the age of criminal responsibility.

Date: 29th May 2015
Category: Equal protection from violence

Ireland, Slovenia, Belgium & the Czech Republic are failing to protect children from violence because their laws do not ban all corporal punishment of children.

Date: 12th November 2014
Category: Equal protection from violence

So far in 2014, five more States have enacted a full prohibition on all forms of corporal punishment of children. These are Malta, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde and, most recently, Argentina.

Date: 6th August 2014
Category: Equal protection from violence

On 17th July 2014, the President of Bolivia signed into law a new Children and Adolescents Code for the country, which explicitly prohibits all corporal punishment of children, including in the home.

Date: 23rd June 2014
Category: Equal protection from violence

Bruce Adamson has written a blog outlining the need to give children in Scotland the same protection from assault as adults.

Date: 4th December 2012
Category: Equal protection from violence

Female victims of domestic violence in the UK are frequently put in unsafe and intimidating positions during family court proceedings, according to a new report by legal rights charity, Rights of Women.