Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Equal protection from violence

The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) is seeking to recruit two people with experience of the youth justice systems to join its Executive Governance Group (EGG).

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

Welsh Government is working with local authorities to introduce a pilot scheme that would make voting at next year’s council elections easier, more flexible, and more accessible.

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Disabled children

EHRC is looking to appoint one or more contractors to deliver capacity-building projects on disability rights projects in England, Scotland and Wales.

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has issued a report on the UK Government’s Independent Review of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Child poverty

CPAG has published a briefing giving an overview of Universal Credit’s (UC) main problems and offering recommendations for change in five areas, in order to improve UC, make it work for families and reduce child poverty.

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

Around 70 organisations, including Article 39, have sent a joint letter to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, urging him to take immediate action to protect children arriving in the UK on boats.

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: COVID-19, Mental health

A new report by UNICEF Innocenti reviews the impact of past crises (such as natural disasters and the HIV epidemic) on youth mental health with the aim of informing responses to the current crisis. 

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Health and health services, Mental health

Closing date: 2nd November 2021

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Equal protection from violence

Using tasers on children goes against the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as it subjects children to torture, inhuman and degrading treatment. Following a freedom of Information request, Sky News has been revealed that over the last three years, police forces across the UK have continued to use tasers against children in various incidents.

Date: 23rd August 2021
Category: Equal protection from violence

The landmark Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021 was unanimously passed by the Scottish Parliament on 10 December 2020 and received Royal Assent on 20 January 2020. Work now advances to implement the FMS Act.

Date: 20th August 2021
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Together has joined Play Scotland in warmly welcoming the announcement that £60 million will be invested in the renewal of play parks throughout Scotland. A joint letter sets out next steps to ensure the investment makes a real difference.

Date: 20th August 2021
Category: Child poverty

As part of the End Child Poverty coalition in Scotland, Together joins 120 organisations and leaders from across Scotland to call for doubling the Scottish Child Payment. This is the single most impactful action that could be taken to help meet the interim child poverty targets in 2023. It would signal that ending child poverty is a defining priority for this Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament.

Date: 20th August 2021
Category: Child poverty

The UK Government plans to cut universal credit and working tax credit by £20 a week in October. This is a lifeline many children and families need to have and without it, it will leave their right to food, shelter and health at risk.  Together joins organisations to #KeepTheLifeline, urging UK Government to change its mind.

Date: 20th August 2021
Category: COVID-19

The latest round of the #LockdownLowdown survey reveals what children and young people aged 11 to 25 feel about the impact of COVID-19 on their mental and physical health, access to information, employment, relationships, primary, secondary and further education and youth work.

Date: 20th August 2021
Category: Funding

The £3.3 million Fund will be delivered by Impact Funding Partners over the next 3 years. Organisations can apply for up to £30,000 until March 2024.

Date: 20th August 2021
Category: COVID-19

A new report published by APIC, supported by CYPCS, ‘#ScotYouthandCOVID2: Children and Young People’s Participation through Crisis’, provides a picture of the struggles faced by Scotland’s young people throughout the pandemic, highlighting the monotony of blended learning and online life amongst other struggles.

Date: 30th July 2021
Category: Family reunification, General measures of implementation, Best interests of the child, Policies & procedures

From 26th July 2021, the law has changed on what councils and the Children’s Hearings System must do to help siblings.

Date: 30th July 2021
Category: Child poverty, Social security

Chairs of four welfare committees from around the UK say removing the temporary top-up would affect families on the lowest incomes and therefore, the measure which is planned to end in October should remain.

Date: 30th July 2021
Category: General measures of implementation, Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

David Lammy MP, Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, has announced that a Labour government would adopt several new policies on strengthening human rights, including the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into UK law.

Date: 30th July 2021
Category: Mental health, Health and health services

NHS England has published new data that shows that referral cases for children and young people for mental health services have hit a record high as they doubled throughout the pandemic.