Together responds to draft UK UNCRC periodic report

Date: 22nd November 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

The UK is due to submit its next (fifth) periodic report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in early in 2014, and Together responded to the call for views on the draft report.

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State of Children's Rights in Scotland report 2013

Date: 21st November 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

The State of Children's Rights report 2013 is a non-government review on the extent to which children in Scotland are able to enjoy their rights enshrined in the UNCRC.

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EU programme for promoting children’s rights is adopted

Date: 20th November 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

A Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme has been adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, with a number of aims including to promote the rights of the child.

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Volunteering Support Fund

Date: 19th November 2013
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Come and meet the Voluntary Action Fund's Volunteering Team at one of a series of road shows during December 2013 to find out about how the Volunteering Support Fund could help your organisation recruit additional volunteers and improve how they are supported.

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'Before you give advice, get some': respectme campaign

Date: 18th November 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

This year's respect me campaign looks at the consequences of giving children and young people bad advice when they're being bullied, and is aimed at making adults think before giving children and young people advice about bullying behaviour.

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Stage 1 report on Children and Young People Bill

Date: 14th November 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The Education and Culture Committee has published its Stage 1 report on the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill.

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SCCYP commissions research about domestic abuse

Date: 11th November 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

SCCYP is commissioning a new piece of research about domestic abuse, entitled Improving and developing practice - how the views of children and young people are taken when they are affected by domestic abuse and subject to court ordered contact arrangements .

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Consultation on the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill

Date: 6th November 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

This consultation seeks views on a range of proposals intended to give people in communities, and those supporting them in the public sector, a range of new ways to help deliver a better Scotland.

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Young armed forces recruits more likely to suffer mental health problems than adults

Date: 1st November 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Studies have shown that teenagers who are recruited by countries' armed forces are more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), alcohol problems and commit or attempt suicide than those who join as adults.

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Four reports relating to children’s rights delivered by Secretary-General

Date: 1st November 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

A follow-up report to the special session of the General Assembly on children has been published, which assesses steps taken in 2012 to achieve a world fit for children, highlighting the gaps in achievement as well as the strategic shifts necessary to meet unmet goals.

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