Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

This is Children’s Parliament’s third month of running its ‘How are you doing?’ survey, asking 8- to 14-year-olds living in Scotland how they are feeling about life at the moment with the impact of COVID-19.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Eighty civil society organisations have become signatories to a letter to the First Minister asking to meet and discuss how Scotland can successfully respond to COVID-19, whilst also tackling climate change to #BuildBackBetterScot.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Research has revealed around one in six adults in Scotland (16%) have done some form of voluntary service since the start of lockdown. More broadly, ten million adults in the UK have come together to support their communities.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Child poverty

New research finds that child poverty rose across the UK between 2014-19 by an overall 2.8%. This is even before the impact of COVID-19 on household incomes which is likely to have deepened child poverty further. The End Child Poverty coalition has called on UK Government to commit to an ambitious strategy to end child poverty.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Funding

The aim of this survey is to gather a broader understanding of how the sector is changing over time. The survey is open for 48 hours every week. The survey from 2-3rd June 2020 received 261 respondents from 94 ‘small’ charities (annual income of less than £500,000), 132 ‘medium’ sized charities (income between £500,000 and £10 million), 32 ‘large’ charities (income of £10 million or more), and three ‘other’.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, General principles

The Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast is seeking the views of children aged 8-17 years old about how their rights have been impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes asking about children’s right to health care, education, play, to be safe and to have their views taken seriously.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: General measures of implementation

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child dedicated its 2018 Day of General Discussion to the topic of protecting and empowering children as human rights defenders. These recommendations act as an advocacy tool and empower child human rights defenders.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Children of prisoners

Children of Prisoners Europe launches its annual ‘Not my crime, still my sentence’ advocacy campaign to support efforts to safeguard the rights of children who have a parent in prison.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Children of prisoners

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our most vulnerable populations the hardest, including children with an incarcerated parent. This global survey sought to uncover the experiences of these children, as reported through organisations that support them. It discovered the shared experience of these organisations and the challenges faced when supporting children with an incarcerated parent.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

** PLEASE NOTE: This article discusses a global study completed by Stonewall whereby research into the experiences of only lesbians, bi women and trans people globally is conducted. Therefore, in order to accurately reflect the research completed by Stonewall, the initialism of LBT+ is used. Together recognises that despite the initialism used the world goes beyond lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals and expands to other sexual orientations too. **

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Policies & procedures

The aim of this informal meeting was to discuss a way forward for UN Treaty Bodies to fully discharge their mandates in light of the challenges faced by COVID-19.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Family Environment and Alternative Care

The report includes data about the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on vulnerable children and families in Scotland in the initial weeks of the ‘lockdown’, and the way that services adapted and responded to the crisis.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Paragraphs 24 and 25 of the UN Human Rights Committee’s List of Issues relate to children's rights, specifically concerning putting an end to corporal punishment and increasing the age of criminal responsibility.

Date: 5th June 2020
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

These webinars will explore children’s rights issues in Scotland which will inform our report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Based upon our examination of the UK’s progress implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child the UN Committee will make recommendations and thereby influencing legislation and policy.

Date: 28th May 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

In an open letter to the First Minister, organisations are calling for a direct financial boost for all families living on low incomes to support them through the coronavirus crisis.

Date: 28th May 2020
Category: General principles, Civil Rights and Freedoms

Country leaders from New Zealand, Argentina, Finland, and Norway have attempted to address the key concerns raised by their country’s youngest inhabitants in a child friendly way.  Following on from this, young people from Scotland have joined the conversation as to why politics is not just for adults and why their concerns should be listened to.

Date: 28th May 2020
Category: Funding

Scottish Government has recently committed to a rights-based approach to decision making when transitioning out of lockdown. To translate this into action, the Government should follow the series of recommendations made by Scottish Human Rights Commission and Social Care Alliance Scotland, and adhere to the principles of accountability, transparency and participation when making budgetary decisions.

Date: 28th May 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

Following reports that parents are facing criticism by members of the public and supermarket staff for bring their children to the shops, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner  Scotland wrote to supermarket Chief Executives urging them to provide guidance and training to staff.

Date: 28th May 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities

The concerns of a group of people with lived experience of poverty have been captured in the first five weeks of lockdown. The briefing aims to draw the UK and Scottish Government and Parliament’s attention to the experiences of people in poverty during the pandemic and offer suggestions on how to take a human rights-based approach to directing resources over the coming months.

Date: 28th May 2020
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

The Crown Estate Scotland is responsible for the management of land and property in Scotland by the Monarchy. To children and young people’s insight is taken into account in the 2020-23 Corporate Plan, the views of seven to 25-year-olds on Scotland's land, seabed and coast were gathered.