MUTINY! The CRIN Code: Child’s Rights International Network has mapped out a new way of promoting children’s right

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

CRIN is a creative think tank that produces new and dynamic perspectives on human rights issues, with a focus on children’s rights. CRIN is saying goodbye to business as usual and introducing the CRIN code. The code sets out their values, principles and vision for a rights-respecting world and how they intend to get there.

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University of Edinburgh & University of Strathclyde: Call for proposals regarding the emotional relations of children’s participation rights

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: Friday, 15th March 2019. This Special Issue proposal for Emotion, Space and Society is seeking proposals that explore the role of emotional relations in how children and young people’s participation rights are embraced, contested, realized, resisted and experienced.

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Call for comments: Committee on the Rights of the Child seeks comments on the implementation of the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Closing date: Sunday, 31st March 2019. The Committee invites all interested parties to comment on the current draft of the Guidelines. Comments are welcome on all aspects of the draft Guidelines, and after due consideration of inputs provided, the Committee will decide on the contents of the final version of the Guidelines. All comments should adhere to the following:

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Gender Recognition Act reform and young people: Rights, capacity and welfare

Date: 21st February 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

This report by Dr Kath Murray examines issues raised by proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in Scotland in relation to young people up to the age of 18 years. Part one looks at competing rights arguments, and the implications of the self-declaration of legal sex on the rights of young people and children to access single-sex spaces. Part two looks at recent trends among young people and children seeking support for gender-identity issues and discusses the gaps in the current medical evidence base. Against this complex and under-researched background, Dr Murray concludes that it is not clear whether formal recognition of gender identity by the state from the age of 16 is in the best interests of young people. She suggests that that greater emphasis should be now placed on welfare principles, and that any reform proposals should be robustly risk-assessed, ahead of the legislative process.

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Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) Practice and Development Panel

Date: 12th February 2019
Category: General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Last year Getting it Right for Every Child Practice Development Panel was established and tasked by ministers to develop a Code of Practice around information sharing, for children, families and people who support them. Together’s Director Juliet Harris is one of the panel members who will be responsible for producing a draft Code of Practice for information sharing, by consensus.

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Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland gives the first Rhodri Morgan Annual Lecture

Date: 12th February 2019
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

A historic moment for Brue Adamson, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner, happened on 25th September as he was asked to give the first Rhodri Morgan Annual Lecture focusing on children’s rights at the Senedd, or the National Assembly of Wales.

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Stage 2 of respectme’s #ChooseRespect campaign launches

Date: 12th February 2019
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Bullying, Mental health

#CelebratingDifference - stage two of respect me ’s #ChooseRespect anti-bullying campaign, is now live.

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Jersey politicians vote to outlaw smacking children

Date: 12th February 2019
Category: Equal protection from violence, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Protection from abuse or neglect, Parental guidance, General measures of implementation, Best interests of the child

The States of Jersey has voted to repeal a section of a law which allowed smacking by a parent if it was deemed "reasonable" making it illegal.

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Are we protecting the rights of children whose families cross international borders?

Date: 12th February 2019
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Access to appropriate information, Family reunification, Care Experienced children, Protection from abuse or neglect, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Awareness-raising, Best interests of the child, Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB) have created a factsheet for social workers and any professional protecting children on the impact Brexit may have on children and families who are crossing, or separated by, international boarders living in the UK.

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Best of UNICEF 2018 research published. Can the cycle of violence against women and children be broken?

Date: 12th February 2019
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Awareness-raising

The Best of UNICEF Research 2018 was recently published. This research underscored the need to view both forms of violence against children and intimate partner violence (women) as overlapping issues with common risk factors.

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