Damages awarded to women trafficked into the UK as minors and 'held in slavery'

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

Four Nigerian women have been awarded damages after police failed to investigate their allegations that they were illegally trafficked into the UK as minors and subsequently 'held as slaves'.

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Impact of domestic abuse on school life

Date: 30th May 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

This week's topic on the Enquire blog explores the issues of children's rights and domestic abuse. This space helps children and young people to understand domestic abuse, and how to take positive action if it's happening to them.

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Funding available for youth activities on migration

Date: 30th May 2011
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The British Red Cross has announced that grants of between £50 and up to £1000 are available to help to support youth action activities that promote more positive attitudes towards vulnerable migrants and awareness of the Millennium Development Goals. The grants are available to schools, colleges, universities, youth groups and student groups working with young people aged 12 to 25.

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Round 2 of Short Breaks Fund now open

Date: 30th May 2011
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The Scottish Government has made the Short Breaks Fund available to help support and sustain Scottish carers, including young carers and kinship carers, through enabling better access to short breaks or respite care.

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Baily Thomas Charitable Fund

Date: 30th May 2011
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The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund, which is a registered charity established to support projects in the area of learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability, has announced that the next application date for grants is the 1st October 2011.

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What's childcare really costing you?

Date: 25th May 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

We all know that the cost of childcare is huge but what can be done about it? Recent research by the Daycare Trust estimate that it costs an average of £177 for a full time nursery place in Britain for a child under two - that's like paying another mortgage. It costs more in Scotland than anywhere else in the UK and as a country we pay the most in Europe (bar Switzerland) and our costs are one of the highest in the world.

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Survey on child-friendly health care

Date: 25th May 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Are YOU 18 years old or younger ? Would YOU like to complete a survey for the Council of Europe ?

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Equality Counting Project

Date: 18th May 2011
Category: Access to appropriate information, Non-discrimination, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Engender would like to work with members of Together (individuals or organisations) to hold workshops on child poverty and its relation to gender inequality.

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Peter Vardy Charitable Fund

Date: 2nd May 2011
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The Peter Vardy Foundation was launched operating as a means of distributing 10 per cent of their annual profits to worthwhile causes in the communities where the company operates across Scotland (Aberdeen, Motherwell, Perth, Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh).

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Consultation on Equalities and Human Rights Commission

Date: 2nd May 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

In March the Westminster government launched a consultation on plans to reform the Equality and Human Rights Commission. In addition to significant budget cuts of up to 50% set out in the 2010 Spending Review, the reform consultation proposes to:

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