Date: 24th April 2013
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

The United Kingdom's Border Agency separated 200 children from their parents between 2009 and 2012, which caused them adverse effects such as emotional distress, nightmares, insomnia, weight loss and feelings of "extreme isolation".

Date: 24th April 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The right to contact an 'appropriate adult' now extends to 17-year-olds, after a teenager successfully challenged the law which treats 17-year-olds in police custody as adults, not children.

Date: 23rd April 2013
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Want to get into the creative industries? Do you have an enterprising idea or project? The Creative Enterprise Fund can offer awards of up to £200 for individuals or £750 for groups of three of more young people, where two thirds of any group are aged between 15-22.

Date: 23rd April 2013
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YouthLink Scotland is delighted to announce the launch of the latest round of the CashBack for Communities Youth Work Fund 2013/14. The closing date for all submissions is 5pm on Friday 3rd May 2013.

Date: 22nd April 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

Booking is currently open for Together's 2013 State of Children's Rights seminar in Aberdeenshire.

Date: 19th April 2013
Category: Access to appropriate information

Only 6 out of the 27 EU Member States have fully transposed the EU Anti-Trafficking Directive into their national legislation, with the deadline having expired on 6th April 2013.

Date: 19th April 2013
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

There has been an update from the Information Commissioner's office of guidance on information sharing between services under existing law where a child's wellbeing is at risk.

Date: 18th April 2013
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Minister for Children and Young People, Aileen Campbell, has announced an extra £10m on top of the £20m third sector fund to be shared between 45 organisations working closely with children, young people and families.

Date: 18th April 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

Three and four year old children will, for the first time in Scotland, be entitled to 600 hours of funded early learning and childcare through the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill, published on Wednesday 17th April 2013.

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

A public consultation was released on 17th April 2013 on the draft regulations on Carers (Waiving of Charges for Support) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 to accompany the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013.

Date: 16th April 2013
Category: Respect for the views of the child

Following some informal discussions with Civil Servants, it has become clear that as yet there has been a poor response from our sector to the Requirements for Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations 2013 consultation.

Date: 11th April 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation

UNICEF has launched the Innocenti Report Card 11: Child well-being in rich countries - a comparative overview' which provides an update to the data found in the previous Report Card 7 which was published in 2007.

Date: 11th April 2013
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

The new SCRA report, 'How much is education included in the plans of children on supervision requirements?' reveals that in reviewing cases of 250 children, less than half of the plans had specific actions on education.

Date: 11th April 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The new SCRA business plan outlines the key pieces of work over the next 12 months, priority activities for the SCRA Localities and Teams and sets out commitment to SCRA's partners.

Date: 11th April 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The most deprived areas in Scotland will take the biggest financial hit when the present welfare reforms come into effect.

Date: 9th April 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The 2012 UK concluding observations on the European Social Charter are publicly available online.

Date: 5th April 2013
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

This new Eurofound report gives an up-to-date overview of the main elements of parenting support services and the structure of services across Europe, summarising common challenges and offering policy recommendations.

Date: 2nd April 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

A further seven States must ratify Optional Protocol 3 before an active mechanism whereby individuals and groups can seek justice for rights violations directly to the UNCRC can come into force.

Date: 2nd April 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Following the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on children's right to health.

Date: 2nd April 2013
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

Next year's Human Rights Council's Annual Day on the Rights of the Child will be on access to justice for children. This is terrific news as it is an important issue so often ignored.