Date: 28th September 2010
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The Rozelle Trust has been established to support a wide range of charitable activities, priorities include children and young people, people living in poverty and people with disabilities.

Date: 27th September 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

It is unacceptable that at every stage of schooling Scotland's poorest children do worse and make less progress than their better off classmates.

Date: 27th September 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

HandsOnScotland is an online resource for anybody working with or caring for children and young people.

Date: 27th September 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disabled children

Every child and young person is entitled to support to enable them to gain as much as possible from the opportunities which Curriculum for Excellence can provide.

Date: 27th September 2010
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The Persula Foundation supports a wide range of charitable activities with a main focus on projects relating to Human Welfare; Human Rights; Animal Welfare and Disabilities.

Date: 25th September 2010
Category: UK 1st periodic review

The EU strategy for the rights of the child will be adopted on 17 November 2010.

Date: 30th August 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

This paper consults on future arrangements for the regulation of independent healthcare in Scotland and seeks views on the definition and scope of independent healthcare services that should be regulated.

Date: 30th August 2010
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The European Commission has announced a call for proposals to fund projects relating to the issue of precarious work in the EU and the ways and means to improve the social rights of people in temporary employment, on fixed-term contracts and temporary agency workers.

Date: 30th August 2010
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'see me's Local Grants Scheme will grant awards of up to £5,000 to local groups who can come up with fresh and innovative ideas and projects to tackle the stigma and discrimination associated with mental ill-health.

Date: 29th August 2010
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The Equitable Charitable Trust is an education charity. It makes grants totalling up to £1 million each year towards education projects for children and young people under the age of 25 who are from disadvantaged backgrounds or disabled.

Date: 27th August 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care

New lesson plans on homelessness and bad housing are now available for Early and First level pupils as part of Shelter Scotland's popular interactive classroom kit.

Date: 27th August 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Thinkuknow is an education initiative which promotes internet safety for children and young people in the UK.

Date: 25th August 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The coalition government's first Budget has hit the poorest families hardest, a leading economic think tank has said.

Date: 17th August 2010
Category: Respect for the views of the child, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

A "non-graduate talent pool" would benefit business and at-risk young people.

Date: 16th August 2010
Category: Funding

The Women's Fund for Scotland (WFS) is dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls across Scotland. It raises money from individuals and organisations, which is then distributed through grants to charities and community groups working with and for women.

Date: 16th August 2010
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Youth organisations in the UK can apply for this Fund which aims to encourage co operation among young people in Europe by providing financial support for youth activities that promote peace, understanding and respect.

Date: 16th August 2010
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Individual young people living in Scotland (or their representative groups) can apply for the Mark Scott Leadership for Life Award which helps develop the talents of young people (aged 16-18) living in Scotland by bringing people from diverse groups together, and training them to deliver a community project.

Date: 16th August 2010
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The James Weir Foundation supports a wide range of charitable activities including those relating to education, welfare, health and well-being and support for people with a disability.

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

Citizens Advice Scotland would like to hear from you if you are aged between 16 and 25, live in Scotland, and feel that you have been affected by the recession.

Date: 13th August 2010
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children, Access to appropriate information

Professor Wallace and a team, including other members of the Centre for Rural Childhood, Perth College UHI and colleagues from the Universities of Cumbria and Stirling have been commissioned by Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People to conduct a scoping study into the extent and nature of child trafficking into and within Scotland. The research findings will be published in December.