‘Rights respecting’ report adapted for young people

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

‘Rights Respecting’ reform to Scotland’s youth justice system has now been adapted to suit younger readers, so they can learn and understand the issues around Scotland’s youth justice system.

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Discovering the impact of COVID-19 on justice experienced children and young people in Scotland

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Research finds children and young people who have had previous experience or are currently in contact with youth justice services or practitioners working within the youth justice system, are feeling increasingly isolated in lockdown.

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Last chance to sign up to our Disability, Basic Health and Welfare State of Children’s Rights webinar

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

This webinar will explore children’s rights issues on the topic of disability, basic health and welfare in Scotland, which will inform our report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Based upon our examination of the UK’s progress implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN Committee will make recommendations and thereby influencing legislation and policy.

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Review on the use of the new emergency police powers within Scotland

Date: 25th June 2020
Category:

Closing date: 1 st September 2020

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Raising the age of referral to the principal reporter

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Closing date: 7 th October 2020

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Together joins Human Rights Consortium Scotland members to raise concerns about potential human rights breaches during pandemic

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Thirty organisations have contributed their experience, insight, and analysis to form the Consortium’s submission to Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee Inquiry: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Equalities and Human Rights.

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Children’s participation in family actions

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Domestic legislation and international conventions say that children’s views should be given due weight in decisions about parental responsibilities. Despite this, children’s rights to participate have often been inconsistently and inadequately realised. New research explores why this is and how both family law and practice could be developed to ensure compliance.

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Latest ‘How are you doing?’ survey launched

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

This is Children’s Parliament’s third month of running its ‘How are you doing?’ survey, asking 8- to 14-year-olds living in Scotland how they are feeling about life at the moment with the impact of COVID-19.

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Scotland's just and green recovery from COVID-19

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Eighty civil society organisations have become signatories to a letter to the First Minister asking to meet and discuss how Scotland can successfully respond to COVID-19, whilst also tackling climate change to #BuildBackBetterScot.

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One in six Scots volunteer in lockdown

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Research has revealed around one in six adults in Scotland (16%) have done some form of voluntary service since the start of lockdown. More broadly, ten million adults in the UK have come together to support their communities.

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