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.

Date: 2nd April 2013
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Funding that will see an unprecedented £100k investment in grassroots projects for Scotland's minority ethnic communities was announced on 29th March 2013 by the Scottish charity 'roshni'.

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

MSP for South Scotland, Jim Hume, has announced his intention to consult on a proposal for a Member's Bill which would ban passive smoking in cars with children.

Date: 2nd April 2013
Category: Respect for the views of the child

UNICEF UK consulted children and young people in the UK to understand more about the kind of world they want to live in, and the issues they view as important, as part of the global conversation regarding the development agenda after the Millennium Development Goals reach their deadline in 2015.

Date: 27th March 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Growing Confidence initiative aims to promote positive mental health and emotional wellbeing by training parents, carers and practitioners to run Raising Children With Confidence courses, and will now run Scotland-wide.

Date: 27th March 2013
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

A recent evaluation in Glasgow and a systemic review and meta-analysis of Triple P (positive parenting programme) more generally indicate that the long-term effectiveness of the programme is unclear.

Date: 25th March 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The Centre for Rural Childhood, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) in Scotland is developing a toolkit to help organisations monitor and evaluate reintegration programmes for children.

Date: 21st March 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

The Committee on the Rights of the Child closed its 62nd session on 1st February 2013, adopting 4 new General Comments.

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

Respectme are looking for nominations for groups and individuals who deserve to be recognised for their anti-bullying work in Scotland.

Date: 19th March 2013
Category: General measures of implementation

The presentation slides from the GUS Annual Conference held in Glasgow on 19th February 2013 are now available.

Date: 19th March 2013
Category: UK 1st periodic review

Following a public consultation on section 7 of the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure, the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty (Huw Lewis) has decided that applying the articles of UNCRC to the 18-24 age group will not go forward.

Date: 14th March 2013
Category: Respect for the views of the child

A new report, Children and Young People's Views on Participation and Principles for Practice, is available from the Commissioner's website.