Date: 30th May 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

This week's topic on the Enquire blog explores the issues of children's rights and domestic abuse. This space helps children and young people to understand domestic abuse, and how to take positive action if it's happening to them.

Date: 30th May 2011
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The British Red Cross has announced that grants of between £50 and up to £1000 are available to help to support youth action activities that promote more positive attitudes towards vulnerable migrants and awareness of the Millennium Development Goals. The grants are available to schools, colleges, universities, youth groups and student groups working with young people aged 12 to 25.

Date: 30th May 2011
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The Scottish Government has made the Short Breaks Fund available to help support and sustain Scottish carers, including young carers and kinship carers, through enabling better access to short breaks or respite care.

Date: 30th May 2011
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The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund, which is a registered charity established to support projects in the area of learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability, has announced that the next application date for grants is the 1st October 2011.

Date: 25th May 2011
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

We all know that the cost of childcare is huge but what can be done about it? Recent research by the Daycare Trust estimate that it costs an average of £177 for a full time nursery place in Britain for a child under two - that's like paying another mortgage. It costs more in Scotland than anywhere else in the UK and as a country we pay the most in Europe (bar Switzerland) and our costs are one of the highest in the world.

Date: 25th May 2011
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Are YOU 18 years old or younger ? Would YOU like to complete a survey for the Council of Europe ?

Date: 18th May 2011
Category: Access to appropriate information, Non-discrimination, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Engender would like to work with members of Together (individuals or organisations) to hold workshops on child poverty and its relation to gender inequality.

Date: 2nd May 2011
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The Peter Vardy Foundation was launched operating as a means of distributing 10 per cent of their annual profits to worthwhile causes in the communities where the company operates across Scotland (Aberdeen, Motherwell, Perth, Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh).

Date: 2nd May 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

In March the Westminster government launched a consultation on plans to reform the Equality and Human Rights Commission. In addition to significant budget cuts of up to 50% set out in the 2010 Spending Review, the reform consultation proposes to:

Date: 28th April 2011
Category: General measures of implementation

Many of Together's members and supporters have launched manifestos to outline clear demands for the Scottish elections in May 2011 and to press political parties to commit to support the rights of children and young people.

Date: 27th April 2011
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The Scottish Youth Parliament are currently conducting a survey around the Curriculum for Excellence which forms part of a project aimed at creating a new resource for children and young people to give them information about Curriculum for Excellence and to inspire them to become more actively engaged in their own learning.

Date: 1st April 2011
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The Positive Images Youth Action Grant is now available to support young people, schools or youth groups in South West Scotland to undertake youth action activities on migration in the lead up to Refugee Week, 20th June 2011.

Date: 18th March 2011
Category: General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms

The UK Government has launched an independent commission to investigate the case for a UK Bill of Rights to 'forms part of the Government's strategy to ensure that ... rights, freedoms and liberties are protected in a way that properly reflects our traditions.'

Date: 15th March 2011
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disabled children, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Scottish Government is seeking views on the common core of skills, knowledge and values for all those working with children, young people and families.

Date: 14th March 2011
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The LankellyChase Foundation has announced that it is seeking applications from registered charities to support summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5 - 17 years. Preference is given to small local playschemes lasting 4 - 6 weeks, and groups planning special activities for youngsters who are disadvantaged.

Date: 14th March 2011
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Grants can take the form of core funding (including salaries and running costs), project grants or capital grants for buildings or equipment. The Trust prefers to offer a contribution towards the total funds required for both capital and core funding requests and, in general, prefers to fund a specific project.

Date: 14th March 2011
Category: General measures of implementation, Civil Rights and Freedoms

The International Children's Peace Prize is an initiative of KidsRights and is presented annually to a child for his or her devotion to children's rights, anywhere in the world.

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

A new national training and support service - to provide better help and guidance to Scotland's estimated 20,000 kinship carers - was launched by Adam Ingram.

Date: 4th March 2011
Category: UK 1st periodic review

A final Together seminar with a keynote presentation from Maggie Mellon, Independent Consultant and Social Worker, Chair of the Child Law Centre.

Date: 23rd February 2011
Category: Equal protection from violence, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

That's the slogan eight young people came up with to support the Scottish Government's domestic abuse advertising campaign.