Scottish Government has released a response to the UN Committee’s Concluding Observations

Date: 26th March 2024
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Scottish Government has responded directly to children and young people about the UN Committee's recommendations in a child-friendly summary. Together welcomes the Scottish Government’s efforts to keep children and young people informed, empowering them to oversee and scrutinise progress.

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OUT NOW - our child-friendly version of the Human Rights Bill Consultation Analysis

Date: 21st March 2024
Category: Other human rights treaties and mechanisms

On Thursday the 21 st of March 2024, we published our child-friendly version of Scottish Governments Consultation Analysis Report. This report is the fourth in the series and shares what the Scottish Government asked, how people answered and what children and young people told us during our Investigations.

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We are recruiting! Help shape our State of Children's Rights Report 2024

Date: 20th March 2024
Category: General measures of implementation, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

Together has been working closely with our members and supporters to develop our approach for our State of Children's Rights Report 2024. Between October – December 2023, we conducted a series of interviews with 11 organisations to support early planning around methodologies and resources. Since February 2024, we have been working closely with five organisations as part of a ‘Development Phase’ engaging with babies, children and young people and providing feedback on our draft facilitator and child-friendly resources, which will be used to support this next phase.

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Fostering Network needs young advisors

Date: 13th March 2024
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, General principles

The Fostering Network in Scotland is recruiting new members for their Young People's Advisory Board.

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Counting down to our new Strategic Plan!

Date: 13th March 2024
Category: General measures of implementation, General principles

In just two weeks, Together will launch its new Strategic Plan for 2024-32. The new plan will guide everything that we do to ensure Scotland implements its latest ‘to do list’ from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

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Families Outside peer support group

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: General principles, Special protection measures

The Connecting Families team of Families Outside has rolled out peer support groups for family members affected by imprisonment across Scotland. The two peer support groups include one in Inverness for primary aged children affected by the imprisonment of a family member.

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The way forward for families fund

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: General measures of implementation, General principles

The Way Forward for Families Fund (previously known as the Partnership Drug Initiative) is now open to applications from organisations that support children and families impacted by drugs and alcohol.

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Request for your participation: amplifying the voices of hidden homelessness in Scotland

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, General principles

RSM UK is currently undertaking research for the Scottish Government with the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities research at Heriot-Watt University (I-SPHERE). They are keen to speak with people who have lived experience of hidden homelessness, either currently or historically.

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Barnardo's /Co-op co-design project with young people in Glasgow

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, General principles

The Co-op and Barnardo’s have partnered up to tackle barriers to social mobility across the UK, with the aim of improving young people’s health, happiness, and access to opportunities. They are seeking to engage a group of young people in and around Shawlands to help them understand what other young people want to see improved and what they’d benefit from in their area.

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New report: cost of a child in Scotland

Date: 12th March 2024
Category: General principles, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

This report is the latest in a series – commissioned by Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland from the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. It builds on calculations which find that across the UK it cost at least £166,000 to bring up a child at a socially acceptable standard of living in 2023.

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