Date: 21st June 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The Scottish Government published its first National Play Strategy on 21st June 2013, setting out a vision for the implementation of Article 31 of the UNCRC in Scotland.

Date: 21st June 2013
Category: Access to appropriate information

Three Vietnamese children who were trafficked to the United Kingdom by criminal gangs and forced to commit drug offences have had their criminal convictions quashed.

Date: 20th June 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has published its annual report on challenges and achievements in the field of fundamental rights in 2012. It is accompanied by the agency's annual activity report of its activities and achievements in the same year.

Date: 17th June 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

NHS Health Scotland and Education Scotland are conducting a review of the resources available which could support the Parenthood aspect of the Curriculum for Excellence in schools, and are looking for examples to include.

Date: 17th June 2013
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

When the Scottish Government published its first National Parenting Strategy in October 2012, Ministers wanted it to make a real, practical difference to parents and carers. They also said that it was a 'work in progress'. So what's happening?

Date: 17th June 2013
Category: Respect for the views of the child, General measures of implementation

The Scottish Government have opened a consultation on the proposed update to Independent Advocacy: A Guide for Commissioners, with a deadline for submissions of 19th July 2013. The Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance (SIAA) has produced a briefing to inform responses.

Date: 17th June 2013
Category:

June 24th 2013 marks an important date in the journey of the Children's Hearings System, with the introduction of the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 and the establishment of Children's Hearings Scotland; a non-departmental public body.

Date: 15th June 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Children in Scotland has launched a campaign calling for health visiting for all families to be protected in Scottish law.

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

Action for Children has published its 2013 Impact Report, demonstrating its commitment to improving outcomes for the most vulnerable children and families.

Date: 15th June 2013
Category:

The Scottish Government has announced a £3.15 million fund to help install a network of full-sized 3G pitches for youth football and rugby development across the country.

Date: 14th June 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Now in its sixth year, the Scottish Out of School Care Network's (SOSCN) annual out of school care workforce survey has been launched, and is an established and anticipated piece of research which allows a more informed picture of the workforce in out of school care.

Date: 14th June 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

Join the Human Rights Tour in Scotland as part of the British Institute for Human Rights (BIHR) events being held in 2013, to find out why you need human rights and why human rights need you.

Date: 14th June 2013
Category: Right to life, survival and development, Access to appropriate information

Europe needs to work closer together to help the victims of today's slavery; a message delivered through the new EU Civil Society Platform against trafficking in human beings.

Date: 13th June 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review, General measures of implementation

Albania and Spain both ratified Optional Protocol 3 of the UNCRC, on 29th May and 3rd June 2013 respectively. With these two new ratifications, the optional protocol now counts six States Parties!

Date: 13th June 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Despite official poverty statistics published on 13th June 2013 showing that the number of children living in relative poverty has fallen in Scotland between 2009-10 and 2011-12, Scotland's Deputy First Minister warned that there is no room for complacency.

Date: 13th June 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Children in Scotland warn of stagnation and not success on child poverty, after Scotland's Chief Statistician released the Poverty and Income Inequality figures for Scotland in the year 2011/12 on 13th June 2013.

Date: 12th June 2013
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) haspublished a Report on the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children in the United Kingdom.

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

UPR Info, together with 76 NGOs from all over the world, expressed concerns on the 10th June 2013 at Human Rights Council (HRC) 23rd session, about States' practice to modify Working Group Reports in order to weaken them, and called on the HRC President to issue a statement to end such practice.

Date: 6th June 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

Last week's 'learning session two' of the Early Years Collaborative was packed with activity - with speeches, a sing-along with fathers' group Dads Rock, and valuable inputs from local partners, sharing their stories.

Date: 3rd June 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

On 14th June 2013 Baroness Hale of Richmond, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the most senior female judge in the history of the country, will deliver the inaugural lecture of the Wales Observatory on Human Rights of Children and Young People.