Childcare is key to reducing inequality

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Social security

New research by Heriot Watt University suggests that improved childcare is the single most effective policy in reducing income inequalities.

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Scouts and guides provide 'mental health boost for life'

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Mental health, Recreation, play and cultural activities

Two research centres at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow have published a study which found that being in the Guides or Scouts as a child seems to protect mental health long into adulthood.

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More than 200,000 children are growing up in poverty in Scotland

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Child poverty

A survey assessment for the End Child Poverty coalition has suggested that 3.5 million children are living in low income households in the UK - with 220,000 of them in Scotland.

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Police Scotland launches four-year approach to working with children and young people

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Respect for the views of the child

Five new priorities which will define the policing approach to keeping Scotland's one million young people and children safe have been announced.

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Trends in Substance Use Among Children

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Children affected by substance misuse, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Scotland's Chief Statistician has recently released results from The Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) 2015, providing information on tobacco, alcohol, and drug use among Scotland's secondary school children.

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Anxiety a rising concern in young people contacting Childline

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Mental health

There has been a sharp rise in young people facing anxiety in the last year. Children and young people are experiencing anxiety about a multitude of issues, including over world affairs.

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Calais camp: French and UK Governments fell far short of their child rights obligations

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The Governments of France and the UK fell seriously short of their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the way they handled the situation of children living at the Calais migrant camp, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has said.

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The impact of air pollution on children worldwide

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Some 300 million children in the world are living in areas with outdoor air so toxic - six or more times higher than international pollution guidelines - that it can cause serious health damage, including harming their developing brains, according to a new UNICEF report.

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Scrutiny of the draft Scottish budget 2017/18 – Universities and disabilities

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Disabled children

The Equalities and Human Rights Committee (EHRiC) has decided to look at the issue of widening access to university in Scotland for disabled people and BSL users and has made a call to evidence.

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Catch-EyoU - Survey for Young People on the EU and Brexit

Date: 15th November 2016
Category: Respect for the views of the child

Young people are being invited to take part in a research study on citizenship and Europe entitled Catch-EyoU being conducted by the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics.

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