Share your views on draft General Comment 27

Date: 1st May 2025
Category: Child justice system, Child victims and witnesses

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is currently inviting feedback on the draft of General Comment No. 27, focusing on children’s right to access to justice and to an effective remedy. This is a significant opportunity to influence international standards and ensure children’s voices are heard in justice systems around the world.

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Views sought for new UNCRC optional protocol

Date: 1st May 2025
Category: General Comments

Closing date: 18 th May (for organisations) and 8 th June 2025 (children’s submissions)

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Month of the Military Child: The Voices of forces children in Wee People, Big Feelings, Helensburgh

Date: 1st May 2025
Category: Children in armed forces families

Starcatchers’ newly-appointed Co-Chief Executive, Heather Armstrong has drafted a blog in celebration of babies, children and young people in forces families.

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Humanist Society Scotland is raising funds for a legal opinion on the Scottish Government’s religious observance plans

Date: 1st May 2025
Category: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, Incorporation

The Scottish Government introduced a new Bill to parliament on 30 th April 2025. The Bill proposes certain changes around the process for withdrawing pupils from religious observance.

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It’s Membership May!

Date: 30th April 2025
Category:

Tomorrow begins a new month and we are delighted to officially launch our new campaign throughout May called Membership May…including a competition!

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Help us keep children’s #RightsOnTrack!

Date: 30th April 2025
Category: Scotland-specific monitoring and reporting, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, General measures of implementation

As part of our #RightsOnTrack campaign, Together is gathering real-life examples of how children’s rights are being upheld - or not - in communities across Scotland. These insights are crucial for helping us track progress, identify gaps, and understand how things are changing over time.

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Rights Empowered: Children’s Access to Justice Project

Date: 30th April 2025
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

Together and Clan Childlaw are delighted to announce that we are beginning our three-year project, funded through the Human Rights Fund, which will both support the children’s sector to use informal means to challenge decision making and will establish a new collaborative model to use strategic litigation to address systemic UNCRC rights breaches in Scotland.

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New blog: Month of the Military Child

Date: 30th April 2025
Category: Children in armed forces families

In celebration of Month of the Military Child, Together has published a blog celebrating the strengths and contributions of forces children in their communities.

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Children’s Commissioner says urgent action needed to improve Scottish education system

Date: 30th April 2025
Category: Education, including vocational education, Inclusive education, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The report titled, ‘This is our lives, it matters a lot” by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland (CYPCS) emphasises the necessity of embedding children’s rights within Scotland’s education system. Drawing on the perspectives of children and young people, the report identifies systemic shortcomings and proposes actionable recommendations to ensure education aligns with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

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Scottish Government publishes the latest child protection statistics

Date: 30th April 2025
Category: Scotland-specific monitoring and reporting, Care Experienced children

The Scottish Government has released the latest data on child protection in Scotland for 2023-24. The report provides data on children who were subject to child protection processes.

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