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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Date: 14th January 2014
Category: General measures of implementation

The Third Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communication Procedure which expressly protects the right of children to redress violations of their rights will enter into force in April 2014.

Date: 14th January 2014
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Scottish Government is seeking views on 'Giving Children and Young People a Sporting Chance - A Draft Strategy for Scotland'.

Date: 13th January 2014
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

Turkmenistan has become the latest country to ban corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the home.

Date: 7th January 2014
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Scottish Government will extend free school meals to all P1-3 pupils in Scotland and extend free childcare provision to every two-year-old from a workless household.

Date: 6th January 2014
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Scottish Government announced that care leavers are to be given greater rights to continuing their care placement into early adulthood from next year.

Date: 6th January 2014
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Gathered Together is a unique partnership project between BEMIS and Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC), with the mission to promote inclusion and active citizenship for ethnic minority parents and carers, stimulating pro-active engagement in their children's education.

Date: 1st January 2014
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Not-for-profit organisations across Scotland can apply for funding from the newly launched Scotch Whisky Action Fund for projects which tackle alcohol-related harms across the theme of young people, families and communities.

Date: 20th December 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

A draft National Youth Work Strategy was published by Education Scotland on 12th December 2013, encouraging partners in the youth work and Community Learning and Development sectors to work together to maximise the life chances of Scotland's young people.

Date: 20th December 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

A consultation paper seeking comments on proposals to extend the rights of children with capacity under the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (as amended) and proposals to repeal section 70 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 was launched by the Scottish Government on 20th December 2013.

Date: 15th December 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Eurochild has published an assessment of the third annual European Commission report on the application of the EU Fundamental Rights Charter.

Date: 10th December 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights (SNAP) sets out key commitments from government, civil society and the private sector, all aimed at improving human rights protection in Scotland.