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Date: 4th December 2012
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
With the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaching, a 'global conversation' is underway
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Date: 4th December 2012
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
The Scottish Parliament's Education and Culture Committee has launched a call for written evidence on the Post-16 Education (Scotland) Bill.
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Date: 3rd December 2012
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New funding by the Plunkett Foundation is intended to create a comprehensive support service for rural communities that want to set up or diversify community-owned services, such as shops and pubs, to help reverse the trend of rural decline.
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Date: 28th November 2012
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Family Environment and Alternative Care
Sandra Paterson, former Head of Children's Services at North Ayrshire Council, is to head up a Scotland-wide review of Foster Care.
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Date: 28th November 2012
Category:
UK 1st periodic review
A policy paper on 'Children's Rights in Europe' was issued to the presidency of the European Union Council.
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Date: 28th November 2012
Category:
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
New legislation hopes to support better job chances for college leavers and ensure more students from poor backgrounds go to university.
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Date: 20th November 2012
Category:
General measures of implementation
The UK must incorporate children's rights into domestic law or risk the development and wellbeing of young people
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Date: 20th November 2012
Category:
UK 1st periodic review, Equal protection from violence
On Universal Children's Day, UN experts highlighted the urgency of achieving universal ratification and effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its three optional protocols.
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Date: 20th November 2012
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
On Friday 23 November the Commissioner welcomed children and young people to the Parliament to report on the work he has done on their behalf in 2011 and 2012. Final reports of a RIGHT blether and a RIGHT wee blether have also been published.
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Date: 19th November 2012
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
Eurochild has recently set up a reference group on participatory methods for the inclusion of all children, and in particular those with particular vulnerabilities.
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Date: 19th November 2012
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A Scottish charitable trust which provides financial support to charities registered in the UK, with a preference towards charitable organisations in Scotland.
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Date: 18th November 2012
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The Woodward Charitable Trust is a grant-making trust and is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. The Trust primarily funds charitable organisations in the UK.
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Date: 17th November 2012
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The £10 million Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund is part of the Scottish Government's Legacy 2014 programme.
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Date: 13th November 2012
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
The Children's Minister Aileen Campbell blogged about Scotland's first-ever national play strategy, stating that a central part of getting it right in the early years is play.
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Date: 10th November 2012
Category:
General measures of implementation
On 10 November the Republic of Ireland passed the Thirty First Amendment to the Constitution, which provides additional rights protections for children
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Date: 5th November 2012
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Voluntary and community sector organisations, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations are invited to apply to the Department for Education's new National Prospectus Grants Programme 2013-15.
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Date: 5th November 2012
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms
While there are an estimate 120,000 children living in the United Kingdom without legal immigration status, there are no concrete figures for the number of children with no nationality, precisely because there is no official record of them.
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Date: 3rd November 2012
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
SCRA is rolling out suggestion boxes in waiting rooms following a year-long pilot in Aberdeen and Inverness.
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Date: 2nd November 2012
Category:
Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General measures of implementation
This new online self-access course covers the application of the law, human rights, medical ethics and rules of professional conduct of medical care for children.
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Date: 1st November 2012
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Inspiring Scotland's Go2Play capacity building fund, is offering up to 18 months of tailored capacity building support for individuals within Scottish charities to develop new work which will help children benefit from more play.
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