The True Colours Trust's Small Grants Programme

Date: 18th July 2011
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The True Colours Trust through their small grants programme, inviting applications for grants of up to £10,000 from small organisations in the UK, to help them develop and deliver programmes for disabled children, their sibling and families.

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Proposed new early years and early intervention legislation

Date: 18th July 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Scottish Government is committed to introducing legislation early on in this Parliamentary term to ensure investment in early years is not an optional extra. It would also explore legislative options to ensure Getting it right for every child is firmly embedded in the whole of the public sector.

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New Getting it right web pages launched

Date: 18th July 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Scottish Government's new Getting it right web pages have now been launched featuring a new home page and a more structured publications page.

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Circle wins SSSC Care Accolade and Scottish 2011 Charity Award

Date: 11th July 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Circle is delighted to have won SSSC Care Accolade and Scottish 2011 Charity Award. Their work with children and families affected by parental imprisonment was recognised as an innovative example of organisations coming together to promote better outcomes for parents leaving prison and ultimately better outcomes for their children.

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Victoria Cares – Young Carers Social Media campaign

Date: 11th July 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Spurgeons, a children's charity based in England, recently ran an interesting social media campaign to tell, in real time, the true story of a 12 year old carer called Victoria.

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Cash for Kids – Radio Forth

Date: 11th July 2011
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Cash for Kids supports local charitable and voluntary projects that work directly with disadvantaged children. Support is offered for activities that address poverty, neglect, disability and distress affecting children across Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife.

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Children's rights must be central to the Bill of Rights Commission's work

Date: 7th July 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

The Rights of the Child UK coalition, all the major UK children's charities, and the children's rights alliances for England, Scotland and Wales have written to the Independent Commission on a Bill of Rights to urge them to champion the rights of children in their deliberations and seize the opportunity to embed and mainstream children's rights within the UK's constitutional arrangements.

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State of Children’s Rights report 2011

Date: 30th June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

Together has launched its consultation to find out the 'State of Children's Rights' in Scotland in 2011.

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E-survey of adults who helped to deliver a RIGHT blether

Date: 24th June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

York Consulting is conducting an e-survey of adults who helped to deliver a RIGHT blether: a national consultation with children and young people by Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People in 2010-11.

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Human Rights Council adopts complaints mechanism for children

Date: 22nd June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted the draft text of a complaints mechanism for children.

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