Date: 14th May 2021
Category: Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

We have supported a joint letter by the Scottish Refugee Council and responded to the UK Government’s consultation to highlight children’s human rights concerns.

Date: 14th May 2021
Category:

Joining Together on placement, Siti will be completing a research project analysing the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 from a children’s rights perspective. Siti will be drawing out learning from this Act to inform Scotland’s implementation of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill.

Date: 14th May 2021
Category: Disabled children

It can sometimes be difficult for people with learning disabilities to form relationships, which is why this year’s theme for Scottish Learning Disability Week is relationships, highlighting the importance of having them.

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Clan Childlaw wants to know: What kind of training and resources would support you to protect the rights of care-experienced children and young people in a pandemic?

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

If you work with a child or young person under the age of 25, please encourage them to share their thoughts and feelings on their rights and the needs of their community with Article 12 in Scotland. Responses will feed into the charity’s “Alternative Report” to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Disabled children

National Autistic Society Scotland and ENABLE Scotland are calling for the world’s first commissioner for autistic people and people with a learning disability.  

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Child poverty

One Parent Families Scotland and Oxfam Scotland are calling for a new approach to employability support to help deliver on Scotland’s child poverty targets.

Date: 13th May 2021
Category:

Every child has a right to play under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It provides a life-enhancing daily experience for all children and is essential for children’s wellbeing and development. However, studies show schools are reducing the amount of playtime offered and children now have to be older to play alone.  

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Funding

Charities and community organisations for local projects that focus on supporting children and families, and projects that tackle food poverty are invited to apply for funding.

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: COVID-19

Global leaders are calling for a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response, which would protect human rights in future pandemics.

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Closing date: 30th June 2021

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Education, including vocational education

Over two online sessions children and young people, educationalists, academics, businesses, the third sector and Scottish Government were asked what is next for education in Scotland? Participants explored this question through the lens of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child being incorporated into Scots law.

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Twenty-one families from LicketySpit’s Children and Families Network have shared their thoughts, feelings, ideas and experiences of different issues that affect them, through group play. Topics discussed include perceptions of COVID-19 restrictions, racism and discrimination, experience of the asylum system and more.

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Health and health services, UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Sex education relates to gender inequality, as the ways we learn about consent, pleasure and desire can be gendered and adhere to gendered stereotypes. It is for this reason, Zero Tolerance heard from 118 young people aged 18–25, on how they learnt about sex as teenagers.

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

The Promise Scotland will publish its Change Programme by the end of May, but in the meantime, the organisation is asking for your input to ensure Change Programme ONE creates a transformative change.

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Child justice system

The very first children’s hearing was held on the 15th of April 1971! Deputy Director of the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), Fiona Dyer, looks back and explores the hearing system and child-friendly justice.

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: COVID-19

Scottish Youth Parliament has launched a follow-up report on its initial LockdownLowdown research conducted earlier in the year that explored young people’s immediate concerns in response to COVID-19.

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Protection of privacy

Anne Longfield, former children’s commissioner for England, has launched a case against the video-sharing app, TikTok, alleging that it illegally collects the personal information of its users, most of whom are children and young people.

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Closing date: Ongoing

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

Closing date: 30th April 2020