Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Child poverty

A survey of frontline Scottish community organisations found that there have been improvements in emergency food aid provision since the start of lockdown. However, it also highlighted a sense of emerging concern amongst community organisations that the food insecurity crisis is far from over.

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Children of prisoners

In a letter to Humza Yousaf MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, and Teresa Medhurst, Acting Chief Executive of Scottish Prisons Service (SPS), the Justice Committee sought the views of issues raised in letters received from Scottish Human Rights Commission and Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland. The issues highlighted in these letters concerned the human rights and wellbeing of prisoners, conditions in prisons and Young Offenders Institutions, family contact, access to mobile phones and a lack of data. These letters aimed to ensure the rights of persons deprived of their liberty are respected and protected during the COVID-19 pandemic, and measures have been implemented in accordance with Scotland’s human rights obligations.

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

‘Rights Respecting’ reform to Scotland’s youth justice system has now been adapted to suit younger readers, so they can learn and understand the issues around Scotland’s youth justice system.

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Research finds children and young people who have had previous experience or are currently in contact with youth justice services or practitioners working within the youth justice system, are feeling increasingly isolated in lockdown.

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare, Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

This webinar will explore children’s rights issues on the topic of disability, basic health and welfare 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: 25th June 2020
Category:

Closing date: 1st September 2020

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Closing date: 7th October 2020

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

Thirty organisations have contributed their experience, insight, and analysis to form the Consortium’s submission to Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee Inquiry: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Equalities and Human Rights.

Date: 11th June 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care

Domestic legislation and international conventions say that children’s views should be given due weight in decisions about parental responsibilities. Despite this, children’s rights to participate have often been inconsistently and inadequately realised. New research explores why this is and how both family law and practice could be developed to ensure compliance.

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.