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Date: 29th November 2016
Category:
Adoption
Adoption in Scotland is to be streamlined to cut down the amount of time children have to wait before becoming part of stable families.
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Date: 29th November 2016
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Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children
The Scottish Refugee Council have submitted written evidence to the Home Affairs Committee inquiry on asylum accommodation.
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Date: 29th November 2016
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Non-discrimination
After a secret review, the UK Government has determined that the 'Prevent' strategy should be strengthened, rather than overhauled or scrapped as rights campaigners have urged.
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Date: 29th November 2016
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Respect for the views of the child
The UK Parliament has refused to consider calls to lower the voting age to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in general elections.
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Date: 29th November 2016
Category:
Disabled children
The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has noted with concern the findings of an inquiry by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into the impact of welfare policy on disabled people's human rights.
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Date: 29th November 2016
Category:
General principles
The Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission has given evidence to the Scottish Parliament Equality and Human Rights Committee on the human rights implications of Brexit.
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Date: 29th November 2016
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Other human rights treaties and mechanisms
The Scottish Human Rights Commission, Scottish Government and other partners in Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights (SNAP) are looking for views on business and human rights in Scotland from the business community, trade unions, civil society organisations and public bodies.
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Date: 16th November 2016
Category:
Scotland-specific monitoring and reporting, General principles, Awareness-raising
Calling all MSPs to sign the Child Rights Manifesto and become a #ChildRightsChamp!
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
General measures of implementation
Clan Childlaw have prepared a paper setting out the way forward for Information Sharing provisions.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Respect for the views of the child, Protection of privacy
The Scottish Government has decided against the creation of new stop-and-search powers for police which would allow them to search young people for alcohol.
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Date: 15th November 2016
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Respect for the views of the child, Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
Humanist Society Scotland has agreed with the Scottish Government to pause its current legal challenge regarding the rights of young people to opt out of religious observance in schools.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Social security
New research by Heriot Watt University suggests that improved childcare is the single most effective policy in reducing income inequalities.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Mental health, Recreation, play and cultural activities
Two research centres at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow have published a study which found that being in the Guides or Scouts as a child seems to protect mental health long into adulthood.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Child poverty
A survey assessment for the End Child Poverty coalition has suggested that 3.5 million children are living in low income households in the UK - with 220,000 of them in Scotland.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
Five new priorities which will define the policing approach to keeping Scotland's one million young people and children safe have been announced.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Children affected by substance misuse, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Scotland's Chief Statistician has recently released results from The Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) 2015, providing information on tobacco, alcohol, and drug use among Scotland's secondary school children.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Mental health
There has been a sharp rise in young people facing anxiety in the last year. Children and young people are experiencing anxiety about a multitude of issues, including over world affairs.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children
The Governments of France and the UK fell seriously short of their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the way they handled the situation of children living at the Calais migrant camp, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has said.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Some 300 million children in the world are living in areas with outdoor air so toxic - six or more times higher than international pollution guidelines - that it can cause serious health damage, including harming their developing brains, according to a new UNICEF report.
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Date: 15th November 2016
Category:
Disabled children
The Equalities and Human Rights Committee (EHRiC) has decided to look at the issue of widening access to university in Scotland for disabled people and BSL users and has made a call to evidence.
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