Children 1st launches a new campaign to promote their Parentline services

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Parental guidance

#WithAHandFromParentline campaign aims to raise awareness that Children 1st’s national Parentline service offers free, confidential support for Scotland’s parents and carers, 365 days a year.

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Welsh Assembly votes to outlaw corporal punishment of children

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Equal protection from violence, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Parental responsibilities, Protection from abuse or neglect

On 28 January 2020, Members of the National Assembly for Wales voted 36 to 14 to approve the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill.

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UN 2019 Resolution on the Rights of the Child

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Family reunification, Care Experienced children, Protection from abuse or neglect

The 2019 Resolution on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 2019. The Resolution focuses specifically on children without parental care.

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Consultation on the revised Statutory Guidance on early learning and childcare

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: 4th March 2020

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Parental Involvement Act – updated Statutory Guidance Consultation

Date: 12th February 2020
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Parental responsibilities

Closing date: 30th April 2020

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Children and Young People’s Panel on Europe meets the First Minister to discuss UK’s future relationship with Europe

Date: 5th February 2020
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The roundtable on 3rd February brought together 17 members of the Children and Young People’s Panel on Europe, alongside representatives of the Scottish Youth Parliament and Young Scot, to discuss the important issues for children and young people following Brexit.

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Rights of the Child UK (ROCK) Annual Conference 2019

Date: 10th December 2019
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The conference, held on 3th December in Belfast, brought together almost 70 delegates from across Scotland, Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Jersey and other parts of Europe to explore developments taking place in each country to embed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into law and policy.

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Together coordinates workshop on simplified reporting procedure

Date: 10th December 2019
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The next examination of the UK’s progress in implementing the UNCRC will take place under the ‘Simplified Reporting Procedure”. This will result in a new set of recommendations (known as Concluding Observations) from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2022. The workshop, held in Belfast on 2 nd December, aimed to raise awareness and understanding of the new procedure, and support the coordination of civil society submissions. Participants included NGOs, children’s commissioners and devolved governments representatives from across the UK and Jersey.

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New research briefing and report in relation to Children (Scotland) Bill

Date: 10th December 2019
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

The briefing - Resolving Parenting Disputes: Scotland Compared to Other Countries - looks at how other legal systems deal with parenting disputes, both in terms of what the law says and how it is applied in practice. The report, written by Dr Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane of Edinburgh Napier University, reviews the current law and the proposed reforms from a human rights perspective.

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British Academy publishes work from UK childhood policy project

Date: 10th December 2019
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The project aims to chart the history of childhood policy in the UK, and its four constituent nations. The publications draw on the expertise of the researchers and Fellows of the British Academy, with a view to opening a conversation on this area of public policy.

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