Children and families have their say through play

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Twenty-one families from LicketySpit’s Children and Families Network have shared their thoughts, feelings, ideas and experiences of different issues that affect them, through group play. Topics discussed include perceptions of COVID-19 restrictions, racism and discrimination, experience of the asylum system and more.

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New research report: ‘How do young people learn about sex?'

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Health and health services, UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Sex education relates to gender inequality, as the ways we learn about consent, pleasure and desire can be gendered and adhere to gendered stereotypes. It is for this reason, Zero Tolerance heard from 118 young people aged 18–25, on how they learnt about sex as teenagers.

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The Promise Scotland needs your input for Change Programme ONE

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Promise Scotland will publish its Change Programme by the end of May, but in the meantime, the organisation is asking for your input to ensure Change Programme ONE creates a transformative change.

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Blog: Children’s Hearings Scotland turns 50!

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Child justice system

The very first children’s hearing was held on the 15th of April 1971! Deputy Director of the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), Fiona Dyer, looks back and explores the hearing system and child-friendly justice.

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LockdownLowdown second report published

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: COVID-19

Scottish Youth Parliament has launched a follow-up report on its initial LockdownLowdown research conducted earlier in the year that explored young people’s immediate concerns in response to COVID-19.

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Legal challenge against TikTok

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Protection of privacy

Anne Longfield, former children’s commissioner for England, has launched a case against the video-sharing app, TikTok, alleging that it illegally collects the personal information of its users, most of whom are children and young people.

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Unfearties' Community Consultation

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Closing date: Ongoing

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Exploring the feasibility of a survey measuring child abuse in the UK

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Equal protection from violence

Closing date: 30 th April 2020

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New Plan for Immigration

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Closing date: 6 th May 2021

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Watch now: Panel discussion on children’s human rights, and community learning and development

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

Community Learning and Development practitioners ask a children’s human rights panel on how they can put children’s rights at the heart of their practice.

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