Date: 13th October 2022
Category: General measures of implementation

The Scottish Government has published revised practice guidance materials following consultation with key stakeholders who asked for better guidance on how GIRFEC policies will be put into practice.

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Inclusive education

A Dyslexic Life is a new collective advocacy group for children, young people and their parents/carers throughout the Western Isles. The group is campaigning for a Bill on dyslexia screening and teacher training in Scotland, following related developments at Westminster.

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Child justice system

What does a good lawyer look like? What does good legal support look like? These are some of the questions Clan asked in a study involving children and young people and legal practitioners to better understand the legal needs of children and young people in conflict with the law and to identify improvements.

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Armed conflict

The UK armed forces continue to target under 18s in their current military recruitment campaign. CRIN’s creative response – “The Rhyming Guide to Joining the Army” – continues to encourage critical thinking about the military recruitment of young people as it is played in film festivals in Ukraine and Berlin.

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: General measures of implementation

This report aims to support litigators and others involved in Child Rights Strategic Litigation (CRSL) in putting children’s rights at the heart of their practice to bring about positive legal and/or social change in terms of children’s enjoyment of their rights.

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Wales-specific monitoring and reporting

The Welsh Government has published a report on progress made in Wales to implement the UNCRC ahead of the UK’s upcoming review by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in May 2023. Scottish Government is expected to publish its own report in coming weeks.

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Respect for the views of the child

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is listening to children and young people’s calls to inform its General Comment No. 26 which will give authoritative guidance on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. The new General Comment is expected to launch in 2023.

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Armed conflict

Together, along with other child rights NGOs, has signed up to the Child Rights Connect network’s joint statement in support of members’ work protecting child rights in Ukraine.

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Child poverty

Closing date: 14th October 2022

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

To protect the right to food, the Scottish Youth Parliament has launched their ‘#HaveYourSay on the Right to Food’ survey and they want to know young people’s views on access to food. The closing date is 7th November 2022.

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

As part of Challenge Poverty Week, Includem launched its Simply Scran campaign to ensure everyone in Scotland has access to three nutritious meals a day – focused on adequate incomes, breakfast provision, school meals and food in communities. 

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Scotland-specific monitoring and reporting

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is preparing to review the UK’s human rights record in May 2023. Join our evidence-gathering webinars to help inform our report to the UN Committee about what things are really like for children and families in Scotland.

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Special protection measures, Child justice system

The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) is providing a scholarship for their Postgraduate Certificate on Children and Young People in Conflict with the Law at the University of Strathclyde. The Scholarship is open to people of all ages who have experience of the justice system.

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: General measures of implementation

Last year the Scottish Government asked for stakeholders’ input on its revision of getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) policy and practice guidance materials. Those responses, along with an independent analysis, are now available, and ask for better guidance on how this policy will be put into practice.

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Age of criminal responsibility, Child justice system

An analysis of responses to the Children’s Care and Justice Bill consultation is now available. Read on to find out what children, young people and civil society organisations thought about the proposals.

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Incorporation, General measures of implementation

The UK Government’s attempt to replace the Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights (or more appropriately ‘Rights Removal Bill’), has failed as the new Prime Minister Liz Truss has shelved the Bill temporarily.

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) is a global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries. Data for 2021 is now available to see how well human rights are protected across the UK.

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Health and health services

UNICEF and Save the Children have collaborated to develop a new series of Child Health Spotlights to support advocacy and communications on child and health survival by providing key data to show where urgent action is needed to help inform advocates’ engagements with decision makers.

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: General measures of implementation, Respect for the views of the child

Closing dates: 21st September for civil society submissions; 30th September for children and young people’s submissions.

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Disabled children

Closing date: 27th October 2022