Date: 5th November 2010
Category: General measures of implementation, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms

Teaching children about their rights can reduce exclusions and bullying, improve behaviour and teacher-pupil relationships, raise attainment and make for more mature, responsible students according to new research published by UNICEF UK.

Date: 1st November 2010
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The City Charitable Trust supports charitable activities that focus on cultural, educational, religious or welfare / relief of poverty issues.

Date: 1st November 2010
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The Sigrid Rausing Trust promotes international human rights. The themes for grant funding are: Civil and Political Rights; Women's Rights; Minority Rights; Social Justice and Miscellaneous Fund.

Date: 1st November 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Lord Young, the Prime Minister's adviser on health and safety law and practice, has published his report Common Sense, Common Safety which puts forward a series of policies for improving the perception of health and safety.

Date: 29th October 2010
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children, Respect for the views of the child, Non-discrimination, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disabled children, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The current European Commission youth programme - "Youth in Action" - will run until the end of 2013. An online public consultation has just been launched to collect views on how to best develop a future programme so as to ensure an adequate response to youth needs, challenges and expectations.

Date: 29th October 2010
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The Trust awards educational grants to under 21 year olds who are in a situation of disadvantage and/or have additional support needs.

Date: 29th October 2010
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Projects the Woodward Charitable Trust will consider funding should work with social and ethnic minority groups, including young people at risk of exclusion or isolation, refugees, asylum-seekers, gypsies and travellers, projects that promote integration and community cohesion will be favoured; prisoners and ex-offenders, homelessness, especially affecting young people and women, and covering facilities such as women's refuges, people experiencing violence or abuse, arts outreach work by local groups involving disadvantaged people and disability projects which can include rehabilitation, training or advocacy for people who are either physically disabled or learning disabled as well as help to improve employability.

Date: 26th October 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Scottish Government needs to set a clear lead and local authorities and health boards need to pool resources to intervene early with vulnerable or troubled families, otherwise, problems such as child neglect and behavioural difficulties will continue from one generation to the next.

Date: 18th October 2010
Category: Access to appropriate information, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

More than half of children polled north of the border, many of them as young as eight years old, have seen signs that could indicate neglect in youngsters they know.

Date: 18th October 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Michael Russell, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, has announced that HMIE and LTS will be brought together into a new executive agency - the Scottish Education Quality and Improvement Agency.

Date: 18th October 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

A fifth of seven-year-olds in the UK live in "severe poverty" with both parents together earning less than half the average national income, a major report reveals.

Date: 15th October 2010
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The Nihal Armstrong Trust can provide children with disability essential pieces of equipment, communication aids or specific services that are not an element of statutory support from their local authority.

Date: 13th October 2010
Category: Respect for the views of the child

Diana Award's vision is to promote a culture that celebrates young people from all sections of society who have made a selfless contribution to their community.

Date: 11th October 2010
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Thousands of child asylum-seekers are to be removed from Britain under savage budget cuts being drawn up by the Home Office ahead of this week's comprehensive spending review.

Date: 29th September 2010
Category: Disabled children

for Scotland's Disabled Children (fSDC) a coalition of organisations and individuals set up to secure rights and justice for disabled children and young people have recently launched their newsletter.

Date: 29th September 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Over 600 children, young people, their parents and carers took part in a national survey to find out what aspects of Children's Hearings are working and which could be improved.

Date: 28th September 2010
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The David and Elaine Potter Foundation is interested in lasting social change and provide funds for five areas: Education; Civil society; Research; Human rights and Arts.

Date: 28th September 2010
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The UK registered charities who are active in the developing world who work closely with local organisations, especially in Africa can apply for International funding through Comic Relief.

Date: 28th September 2010
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The Thomas Wall Trust can fund a wide range of charitable activities, with priority given to projects that relate to the advancement of education and social concern.

Date: 28th September 2010
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The Foundation supports charitable and non-profit organisations with creative ideas to identify change or interventions which will have a practical impact for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.