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Date: 26th March 2021
Category:
Armed conflict, UNCRC Optional Protocols and General Comments
Our response highlights key children’s rights concerns arising from armed forces recruitment and calls for the minimum age of recruitment to be increased to 18.
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Date: 26th March 2021
Category:
Other human rights treaties and mechanisms
Our response highlights that the Human Rights Act is a powerful and essential mechanism in upholding children’s human rights, and must be protected from any amendments which could diminish its effectiveness.
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Date: 26th March 2021
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms
Responses to a recent consultation show overwhelming support to raise the maximum age of referral to 18 for care, protection and offence cases, allowing equal opportunities for young people to get the right support at the right time.
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Date: 26th March 2021
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Care experienced children and/or those with experience of the child protection system are encouraged to feed into the next Day of General Discussion 2021 which is on the theme of Children’s Rights and Alternative Care.
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Date: 26th March 2021
Category:
Children in situations of exploitation, Child trafficking
Closing date: 10th May 2021
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Date: 26th March 2021
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Closing date: 12th July 2021
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Date: 26th March 2021
Category:
Closing date: 12th July 2021
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Date: 26th March 2021
Category:
Budgeting
The report makes a case for directing funds to ensure children’s wellbeing and human rights in their early years are protected, not only to improve life outcomes, but also because it matters from a fiscal perspective.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
Incorporation
The UK Government has written to the Deputy First Minister with concerns that parts of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill go beyond the powers of the Scottish Parliament.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
Incorporation, General measures of implementation
The National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership has published its report and recommendations for a new human rights law for Scotland.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
Child poverty
New research by Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that increasing the Scottish Child Payment to £30 a week would be enough to ensure Scotland’s poverty targets are met.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
The report shares views and experiences of the organisation’s Care Experienced membership in relation to the pandemic.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
General measures of implementation
This child and young person-friendly version of the organisation’s manifesto aims to make political ideas accessible for all, ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections in May.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
Civil Rights and Freedoms
The new Bill will help uphold women and children’s rights to remain in their home.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
Family Environment and Alternative Care
Royal Caledonian Education Trust has launched its first ever manifesto ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections in May, shaped by the voices of armed forces children and young people from across Scotland.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
The Scottish Youth Parliament has been identifying young people’s big ideas as part of The Action Project, hosted by David Hume Institute.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
Education, including vocational education
As millions of children remain out of school around the world, World Vision UK has launched its Empty Classrooms, Broken Futures campaign as part of its wider efforts to end violence against children.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
Respect for the views of the child
This European Commission report covers the 27 EU member countries and the UK. It explores child participation at national and local level.
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Date: 25th March 2021
Category:
General measures of implementation, Budgeting, Awareness-raising, Child rights indicators, Training
Over 10,000 children and young people have participated in a consultation to shape the EU’s upcoming Child Guarantee and Strategy on the Rights of the Child.
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Date: 16th March 2021
Category:
Incorporation
In a historic step that will inspire countries across the world, the Scottish Parliament has today passed a Bill that will incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law.
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