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  • Extended deadline! Share your views on draft General Comment 27

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category: General measures of implementation

    Together has extended its call on members to contribute to our collective response to the current draft of the General Comment 27.

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  • Programme for Government 2025-26

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category: General measures of implementation, General principles

    The Scottish Government has presented the programme for government for 2025-26. This year’s release was brought forward, as First Minister John Swinney explained, to make sure Scotland is as ready as possible for an uncertain future.

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  • New campaign launched to encourage more foster carers in Scotland

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category: General measures of implementation, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    A new national campaign has been launched by the Scottish Government to encourage more people to consider becoming foster carers. It’s titled Ordinary can be extraordinary for a child in foster care, the campaign aims to show how simple, everyday moments can make a big difference in a child’s life.

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  • Latest statistics show fewer children in care in Scotland

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category: General measures of implementation, Family Environment and Alternative Care

    The Scottish Government has published new statistics on children and young people in care, showing a small drop in the number of children being looked after.

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  • Children’s commissioners call for ban on legal assault of children in UK

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category: General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms

    Commissioner Nicola Killean, alongside other Children’s commissioners from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, is urging Westminster to ensure that all children across the UK receive the same legal protection from assault as adults.

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  • Save the Children urges UK Government to tackle high rise in child poverty

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category: General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    At the request of the UK Government’s Child Poverty Taskforce, Save the Children gathered views from children, families, and local workers as part of its No Limits to Childhood campaign.

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  • Call to raise age of criminal responsibility in Northern Ireland

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category: Special protection measures, General principles, General measures of implementation

    Invisible Traffick is calling for the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Northern Ireland to be raised from 10 to 16, arguing that criminalising young children fails to protect them and ignores the reality of child exploitation.

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  • Eurochild annual report and achievements 2024

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category: General measures of implementation, General principles

    This annual report by Eurochild highlights its key achievements throughout 2024 in promoting and protecting children’s rights across Europe.

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  • Nearly every child in Gaza is facing starvation

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category: General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

    More than 93% of children in Gaza, around 930,000 are now at serious risk of famine, according to Save the Children. New figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global authority on hunger, reveal a worsening food crisis in the region.

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  • Together congratulates newly elected officeholders of the UN Committee

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category:

    The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (‘UN Committee’) has recently held an election for new officeholders. Below is a list of the elected members:

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  • Qualifications for teachers of children and young people with sensory impairments

    Date: 27th May 2025
    Category:

    Closing date: 4th July 2025

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  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

    Date: 1st May 2025
    Category: Child rights impact assessments, Best interests of the child, Respect for the views of the child, Incorporation, Policy and strategy

    Together is pleased to be one of more than 110 organisations backing a joint parliamentary briefing ahead of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Second Reading in the House of Lords on 1 May. 

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  • Human rights for anti-racism in education

    Date: 1st May 2025
    Category: Inclusive education, Education, including vocational education

    The Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) has developed a new online resource exploring the links between anti-racism and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This free, accessible resource supports teachers and educators in embedding anti-racist principles into their everyday practice. It connects human rights education with practical approaches to tackling racial inequality.  

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  • Share your views on draft General Comment 27

    Date: 1st May 2025
    Category: Child justice system, Child victims and witnesses

    The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is currently inviting feedback on the draft of General Comment No. 27, focusing on children’s right to access to justice and to an effective remedy. This is a significant opportunity to influence international standards and ensure children’s voices are heard in justice systems around the world. 

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  • Views sought for new UNCRC optional protocol

    Date: 1st May 2025
    Category: General Comments

    Closing date: 18th May (for organisations) and 8th June 2025 (children’s submissions) 

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  • Month of the Military Child: The Voices of forces children in Wee People, Big Feelings, Helensburgh

    Date: 1st May 2025
    Category: Children in armed forces families

    Starcatchers’ newly-appointed Co-Chief Executive, Heather Armstrong has drafted a blog in celebration of babies, children and young people in forces families.  

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  • Humanist Society Scotland is raising funds for a legal opinion on the Scottish Government’s religious observance plans

    Date: 1st May 2025
    Category: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, Incorporation

    The Scottish Government introduced a new Bill to parliament on 30th April 2025. The Bill proposes certain changes around the process for withdrawing pupils from religious observance.

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  • It’s Membership May!

    Date: 30th April 2025
    Category:

    Tomorrow begins a new month and we are delighted to officially launch our new campaign throughout May called Membership May…including a competition! 

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  • Help us keep children’s #RightsOnTrack!

    Date: 30th April 2025
    Category: Scotland-specific monitoring and reporting, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, General measures of implementation

    As part of our #RightsOnTrack campaign, Together is gathering real-life examples of how children’s rights are being upheld - or not - in communities across Scotland. These insights are crucial for helping us track progress, identify gaps, and understand how things are changing over time. 

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  • Rights Empowered: Children’s Access to Justice Project

    Date: 30th April 2025
    Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

    Together and Clan Childlaw are delighted to announce that we are beginning our three-year project, funded through the Human Rights Fund, which will both support the children’s sector to use informal means to challenge decision making and will establish a new collaborative model to use strategic litigation to address systemic UNCRC rights breaches in Scotland. 

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