New schools COVID-19 assessment model

Date: 21st June 2021
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Education, including vocational education

Formal school exams have been cancelled for the second year in a row due to the pandemic, and with schools struggling with the replacement system of “teacher judgement” assessments, SQA have launched a new appeals service where students can appeal their results.

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Help shape Together's State of Children’s Rights Report 2021!

Date: 21st June 2021
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Each year, with your help we produce a State of Children’s Rights Report. These reports monitor Scotland’s progress in implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and wider international human rights treaties. We’re asking for your help once again!

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Too expensive transport for many families

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Child poverty

Anti-poverty campaigners are calling for action to make Scotland’s transport system more affordable. These calls come after a report found Scotland’s transport system is too often pushing parents, carers and children from low-income families further into poverty.

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Young people feel their mental health struggles are dismissed by adults

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Mental health

A survey of 1000 young people found that two thirds think young people are dismissed by adults when they try to speak about their mental health. The impact of this can be profound given 72% said they have struggled with their mental health.

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Commissioner’s investigation finds at-risk children may have been detained unlawfully

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Restraint

The Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland has published a report following an investigation of local authorities’ practices around secure accommodation. The Commissioner found children may have been deprived of their liberty without due process of law when being placed in secure accommodation.

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Campaign for every mother and baby to have their rights to safe, suitable accommodation fulfilled

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Earlier this year, more than 20 expectant and new mothers seeking asylum were moved from settled accommodation into cramped bedsits at a new mother and baby unit in Glasgow. The #FreedomToCrawl campaign launched to highlight that asylum-seekers are no exception to the right every mother and baby has to safe, suitable accommodation.

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Concerns about the increased use of remand amongst children

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Child justice system

When a person accused of an offence first appears in court, the judge decides whether they will be released on bail or remanded into custody. For many people, being remanded into custody is their first experience of prison.

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Discover Scottish Youth Parliament’s new manifesto web hub

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: General principles

The web hub details what changes young people wish to see over the next five years as part of SYP’s ‘From Scotland’s Young People’ Manifesto.

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Scottish Government launches new youth justice strategy

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Child justice system

This strategy looks at how Scotland can: meet the UNCRC obligations, provide information and support is provided for victims, use trauma informed approaches, extend the child hearing system for all 16- and 17-year-olds and work towards having no child in a Young Offenders Institution where possible and appropriate.

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Academic warns domestic abuse is often ignored in child contact disputes

Date: 18th June 2021
Category: Equal protection from violence

Despite legal requirements to consider domestic abuse in child contact decisions, research reveals victims are sometimes told by solicitors not to disclose domestic abuse in child contact disputes.

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