Date: 15th December 2012
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Population Europe, a network of Europe's leading demographic research centres has published an article entitled: Our children - who cares, who pays? Exploring the link between childcare needs, mothers' participation in the labour market and childcare policies.

Date: 14th December 2012
Category:

Previously known as the Community Chest programme, this popular small community grant programme has been extended to the end of March 2013.

Date: 13th December 2012
Category:

Big Fund (the non-lottery arm of the Big Lottery Fund) are administering the Third Sector Early Intervention Fund on behalf of the Scottish Government.

Date: 11th December 2012
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

The Joint Committee on Human Rights launched an inquiry into the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and young people in the UK, with a particular focus on those who are seeking asylum or have been the victims of trafficking.

Date: 10th December 2012
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The Europe for Citizens Programme supports a wide range of activities which promote European citizenship, particularly the involvement of citizens and civil society organisations in the process of European integration.

Date: 5th December 2012
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The number of young people seeking help about self-harm has soared by more than two thirds (68%) in the last year, according to the ChildLine annual report, 'Saying the Unsayable.'

Date: 5th December 2012
Category: General measures of implementation

On 3rd December, around one thousand people took part in the largest global discussion to date on how governments and businesses are moving to address the impacts of business activities on human rights.

Date: 4th December 2012
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The analysis of responses to the Children and Young People Bill consultation has now been published on the Scottish Government website.

Date: 4th December 2012
Category: Equal protection from violence

Female victims of domestic violence in the UK are frequently put in unsafe and intimidating positions during family court proceedings, according to a new report by legal rights charity, Rights of Women.

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

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.

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.

Date: 28th November 2012
Category: 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.