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Date: 9th February 2024
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Closing date: 11 March 2024
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Date: 9th February 2024
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Closing date: 21st April 2024
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Date: 9th February 2024
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Closing date: 22nd April 2024
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Date: 8th February 2024
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
The Scottish Government published a consultation for education reform last autumn. The consultation paper specifically focused on the new qualifications body and new approaches to inspection.
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Date: 8th February 2024
Category:
Other human rights treaties and mechanisms
The Scottish Government ran a written consultation between 15 June 2023 and 5 October 2023, seeking views on a Human Rights Bill for Scotland (referred to as ‘the Bill’). Alma Economics was commissioned by the Scottish Government to analyse the responses to the consultation
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Date: 8th February 2024
Category:
Child poverty
Energy regulator Ofgem recently granted permission for three energy companies to restart a previously banned activity of force-fitting pre-payment meters in the homes of the most vulnerable. Read on to hear what Scotland’s Children and Young People’s Commissioner has said about the dangers of the practice for children and young people and their families.
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Date: 8th February 2024
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Recreation, play and cultural activities, Planning and community
This research project by Silvia Veiga Seijo a PhD student at Queen Margaret University was created with children (based on children rights participation) about creating a play friendly community in Whitecraig, (East Lothian). The report was co-created by 17 children as co researchers alongside Silvia, and it is founded on children’s voices and perspectives.
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Date: 8th February 2024
Category:
Young carers
The Media Ambassadors are a group of young carers, aged 16-18 who have taken part in film making training over the summer and attended the Scottish young carers festival to create films on issues important to them. This year, the group have created four films around the themes of transitions, mental health support, financial support and greater awareness of who young carers are.
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Date: 19th January 2024
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Scotland-specific monitoring and reporting, Respect for the views of the child
Together is looking to recruit five organisations to join the development phase for our 2024 State of Children’s Rights Report. We’re looking for organisations who can support children and young people to test some draft engagement materials, provide us feedback and support us to create versions in alternative formats.
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Date: 17th January 2024
Category:
General measures of implementation, UNCRC Optional Protocols and General Comments
On the 16th of January 2024, royal assent was granted for the UNCRC Bill meaning its now officially an Act! Most of its provisions will come into force in six months’ time (16th July 2024).
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
General measures of implementation
To mark World Children's Day 2023, Together released new research on the participation of children and young people in processes to monitor UNCRC implementation at local, national and international level. There was also an update from the Minister for Children and Young People as she released a conversation with young people about her next steps for incorporation.
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Nutrition
This UN Human Rights Day, Together is celebrating the right to food and the vital services provided by Magic Breakfast, who delivers free breakfasts to school children facing hunger every day. Read this blogpost by Magic Breakfast’s Finlay Allmond, as he explains the importance of a rights-based approach to Scotland’s food system.
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Date: 18th December 2023
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Together, alongside 57 other organisations, signed a letter to the First Minister on progressing human rights in Scotland. The letter talks about the different breaches of fundamental rights experienced by people living in Scotland and it urges the Scottish Government to take progressive measures to make all human rights a reality for everyone in Scotland.
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms
People in Scotland are more likely to support human rights than not and are increasingly worried about having fewer human rights, according to new research published by the Scottish Human Rights Commission. The Commission asked public opinion specialists YouGov to carry out research to investigate public attitudes towards human rights in Scotland and published these results for Human Rights Day.
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation
Members of the End Child Poverty coalition in Scotland, alongside 150 other organisations including Together, are urging the First Minister Humza Yousaf to - as a first step - deliver on his commitment to increase the Scottish Child Payment to £30 per week.
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
CELCIS has selected a winning image for their annual Christmas card competition for 2023. With an amazing display of designs they had a real challenge to select a winner.
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
Care Experienced children
In 2022, the Scottish Government asked CELCIS to carry out a research study with the aim of gathering evidence to inform decision-makers about how best to deliver children’s services in Scotland. The purpose of the children’s services reform research is to answer the question: “what is needed to ensure that children, young people and families get the help they need, when they need it?”
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
Special protection measures
Ruby Boots is a mentorship programme by Forces Children Scotland to provide buddy mentors for young people who have a parent who has left the armed forces. Read on to find out more about the programme!
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Date: 18th December 2023
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The UK ranks at the bottom of UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 18, a review of 43 countries’ child poverty status and their progress to eliminating child poverty.
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Date: 18th December 2023
Category:
General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms
This report is a call to recognise ecocide as a children’s rights crisis. By criminalising ecocide, we protect children’s rights, ensure intergenerational equity, and preserve the beauty and vitality of the natural world.
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