Date: 8th August 2011
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Charities working in medical research, with children and the elderly, and those involved with the physically and/or mentally disabled are able to apply for funding to the Sir Cliff Richard Charitable Trust.

Date: 18th July 2011
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The European Commission has announced a new call for proposals to promote the integration of Roma people in and through education.

Date: 18th July 2011
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The True Colours Trust through their small grants programme, inviting applications for grants of up to £10,000 from small organisations in the UK, to help them develop and deliver programmes for disabled children, their sibling and families.

Date: 18th July 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Scottish Government is committed to introducing legislation early on in this Parliamentary term to ensure investment in early years is not an optional extra. It would also explore legislative options to ensure Getting it right for every child is firmly embedded in the whole of the public sector.

Date: 18th July 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Scottish Government's new Getting it right web pages have now been launched featuring a new home page and a more structured publications page.

Date: 11th July 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Circle is delighted to have won SSSC Care Accolade and Scottish 2011 Charity Award. Their work with children and families affected by parental imprisonment was recognised as an innovative example of organisations coming together to promote better outcomes for parents leaving prison and ultimately better outcomes for their children.

Date: 11th July 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Spurgeons, a children's charity based in England, recently ran an interesting social media campaign to tell, in real time, the true story of a 12 year old carer called Victoria.

Date: 11th July 2011
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Cash for Kids supports local charitable and voluntary projects that work directly with disadvantaged children. Support is offered for activities that address poverty, neglect, disability and distress affecting children across Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife.

Date: 7th July 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

The Rights of the Child UK coalition, all the major UK children's charities, and the children's rights alliances for England, Scotland and Wales have written to the Independent Commission on a Bill of Rights to urge them to champion the rights of children in their deliberations and seize the opportunity to embed and mainstream children's rights within the UK's constitutional arrangements.

Date: 30th June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

Together has launched its consultation to find out the 'State of Children's Rights' in Scotland in 2011.

Date: 24th June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

York Consulting is conducting an e-survey of adults who helped to deliver a RIGHT blether: a national consultation with children and young people by Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People in 2010-11.

Date: 22nd June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted the draft text of a complaints mechanism for children.

Date: 20th June 2011
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National Anti-Bullying Week takes place across the UK and Ireland from 14 to 18 November 2011. To make the occasion, respectme, Scotland's Anti-Bullying Service and Youth Scotland want to encourage and support anti-bullying campaigning at a local level.

Date: 15th June 2011
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Inspiring Scotland has announced that the Early Years Early Action Fund is now open to applications. The aim of the Early Years Early Action Fund is to improve the outcomes for vulnerable young children, to help them achieve their potential.

Date: 14th June 2011
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This small grant-making trust supports children-related organisations in the Edinburgh, Lothians and Borders area, under the headings of Medical Care, Welfare and Education.

Date: 13th June 2011
Category: Equal protection from violence

The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Marta Santos Pais has launched a new website, which includes its own newsletter, region-specific information, and other useful resources, including a Children's Corner offering a series of child-friendly materials.

Date: 8th June 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The latest findings of a study shining a spotlight on the realities of life as a child in Scotland has been published.

Date: 8th June 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

The establishment of a complaints mechanism for the CRC moved a step closer as the Chairperson of the Working Group presented his report, including a draft text to be adopted by the Council.

Date: 1st June 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Young Scotland's Got Talent will celebrate their first birthday with an awards ceremony to be held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 22 June 2011.

Date: 30th May 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

Four Nigerian women have been awarded damages after police failed to investigate their allegations that they were illegally trafficked into the UK as minors and subsequently 'held as slaves'.