CLOSING SOON: Sign the Letter to the First Minister and Scottish Government calling for action on hunger

Date: 13th October 2022
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

As part of Challenge Poverty Week, Includem launched its Simply Scran campaign to ensure everyone in Scotland has access to three nutritious meals a day – focused on adequate incomes, breakfast provision, school meals and food in communities.

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Join our State of Children’s Rights webinars!

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC, Scotland-specific monitoring and reporting

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is preparing to review the UK’s human rights record in May 2023. Join our evidence-gathering webinars to help inform our report to the UN Committee about what things are really like for children and families in Scotland.

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Scholarship opportunity for people with justice experience

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Special protection measures, Child justice system

The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) is providing a scholarship for their Postgraduate Certificate on Children and Young People in Conflict with the Law at the University of Strathclyde. The Scholarship is open to people of all ages who have experience of the justice system.

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GIRFEC consultation analysis

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: General measures of implementation

Last year the Scottish Government asked for stakeholders’ input on its revision of getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) policy and practice guidance materials. Those responses, along with an independent analysis, are now available, and ask for better guidance on how this policy will be put into practice.

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Children’s Care and Justice Bill consultation analysis

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Age of criminal responsibility, Child justice system

An analysis of responses to the Children’s Care and Justice Bill consultation is now available. Read on to find out what children, young people and civil society organisations thought about the proposals.

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The Rights Removal Bill has been shelved

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Incorporation, General measures of implementation

The UK Government’s attempt to replace the Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights (or more appropriately ‘Rights Removal Bill’), has failed as the new Prime Minister Liz Truss has shelved the Bill temporarily.

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Human Rights Tracker UK Report

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Reporting to and monitoring the UNCRC

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) is a global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries. Data for 2021 is now available to see how well human rights are protected across the UK.

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Child Health Spotlights

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Health and health services

UNICEF and Save the Children have collaborated to develop a new series of Child Health Spotlights to support advocacy and communications on child and health survival by providing key data to show where urgent action is needed to help inform advocates’ engagements with decision makers.

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Views sought on UN action to mainstream children’s rights ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: General measures of implementation, Respect for the views of the child

Closing dates: 21 st September for civil society submissions; 30 th September for children and young people’s submissions.

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Children and Young People (Transitions to Adulthood) (Scotland) Bill

Date: 15th September 2022
Category: Disabled children

Closing date: 27 th October 2022

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