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Date: 13th February 2014
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
This project will work with disabled children, young people and those with a long term condition as well as their parent/carers to help raise awareness of GIRFEC.
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Date: 13th February 2014
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
From Thursday 13 February Belgium became the first country in the world to allow euthanasia to children under the age of 18.
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Date: 11th February 2014
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
The Safer Internet Day was celebrated on 11th February in over 100 countries and is organised each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people.
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Date: 10th February 2014
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Child poverty fell in Scotland by 9.9% in the decade to 2012, compared with 5.7% in England, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reported.
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Date: 4th February 2014
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People is mapping existing areas of work specifically relating to disabled children and young people and their families, and is asking for your input.
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Date: 4th February 2014
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Following the launch of the Scottish Government's Play Strategy for Scotland in 2013, Inspiring Scotland is inviting charities to apply to its Go2Play Fund.
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Date: 4th February 2014
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A new report released by CarersUK reveals in great depth how carers are struggling with alarming levels of hardship.
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Date: 1st February 2014
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
The Scottish Parliament's Education and Culture Committee has launched a call for written evidence on Scotland's educational and cultural future following the Independence Referendum.
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Date: 31st January 2014
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
Children in Scotland coordinated a survey about transitions throughout childhood, and has recently published a summary paper of the survey results.
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Date: 31st January 2014
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms
Together raised concern that the use of stop and search by police on children is disproportionate and based on a desire to meet targets, rather than an intelligence-based assessment of risk.
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Date: 31st January 2014
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Under the European Union's Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme, the 2013 action grants call has been launched, with several priorities on the rights of the child.
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Date: 24th January 2014
Category:
General measures of implementation
The Human Rights Council's Annual Day on the Rights of the Child is fast approaching. In March, during its 25th session, the Council will dedicate a day to "Access to Justice for Children".
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Date: 23rd January 2014
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) launched a new campaign on 23rd January 2014 to ensure that young carers are treated fairly by society and government policies.
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Date: 22nd January 2014
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
The Scottish Government is consulting on new proposals that aim to improve outcomes for carers and young carers across Scotland.
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Date: 20th January 2014
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
An inquiry that will investigate the impact of health inequalities in the early years has been launched by the Health and Sport Committee.
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Date: 20th January 2014
Category:
General measures of implementation
Young Scot has published a project report on Agents of Change, a co-design project aimed to empower disabled young people across Scotland to explore ways in which they could influence and participate in local service delivery.
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Date: 16th January 2014
Category:
Access to appropriate information
The Commissioner has concluded an extensive and rigorous two-year Inquiry into child sexual exploitation in gangs and groups last November by releasing a final report.
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Date: 15th January 2014
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
A survey has been developed to enable YouthLink Scotland to shape its future work on the subject considering the youth work sector's relationship with the Equalities Act 2010 and Human Rights in its widest sense, including the UNCRC.
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Date: 15th January 2014
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare
In a summary report, Doctors of the World calls on national governments and EU institutions to ensure public health systems built on solidarity, equality and equity, open to everyone living in a European Member State, rather than systems based on a profit rationale.
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Date: 14th January 2014
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Legal changes will be made to Scotland's care system enabling care leavers to stay in care to 21 years old, after an amendment to the CYP Bill was passed by the Education and Culture Committee.
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