Scottish Government responds to the Human Rights Act reform consultation

Date: 7th April 2022
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Scottish Government has strongly disagreed with the UK Government's proposal to replace the Human Rights Act with a "modern Bill of Rights". It said the Act is “one of the most important and successful pieces of legislation ever passed by the UK Parliament.” The argument echoes similar themes to Together’s response, which stated that the Human Rights Act plays a critically important role in protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms throughout the whole of the United Kingdom.

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Care Experienced young people are invited to take part in a new survey

Date: 7th April 2022
Category: Care Experienced children

Care Experienced children and young people are encouraged to take part in a new Digital Wellbeing survey. The survey focuses on digital rights, safety online and maintaining relationships. Those who are members of Young Scot will get Young Scot points for completing it too!

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Opportunity to develop sexual health and relationship guidance and resources

Date: 7th April 2022
Category: Health and health services

Care Experienced young people are invited to design and create new guidance and resources for professionals and carers to better support Care Experienced people navigate their relationships and sexual health.

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Wales introduces new ban on physical punishment

Date: 7th April 2022
Category: Equal protection from violence

The legislation that has come into force removes the defence of “reasonable punishment” and makes all forms of physical punishment against children, such as smacking, hitting, slapping and shaking illegal. The law will apply to everybody in Wales, including visitors.

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New report: The cost of having fun at school

Date: 7th April 2022
Category: Child poverty

This new report captures the experiences of pupils and parents in schools across Britain, including insights from focus groups with over 1600 children and young people in Scotland. Lower income families share difficulties making the most of school life and taking part in special activities and events due to cost. The report includes ideas and suggestions from pupils and families about how events can be made more inclusive and examples of good practice from schools.

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Members of the States Assembly of Jersey will have to pay due regard to children’s rights

Date: 7th April 2022
Category: General measures of implementation

A new incorporation law has been approved by the States Assembly of Jersey. This means that in every aspect of decision-making, policy and practice, Members of the States Assembly of Jersey will have to pay due regard to children's rights.

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New report looks at the impact of counter-terrorism measures on children’s rights

Date: 7th April 2022
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

The ‘Prevent Strategy’ is the part of the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy aimed at preventing individuals “becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.” However, civil society expresses deep concerns and widespread criticism of the strategy as it targets children disproportionately, interfering with their right to privacy and to freedom of expression, religion and assembly.

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Raising awareness and supporting young carers with a whole family approach

Date: 7th April 2022
Category: Young carers

The ‘Together: A Whole Family Approach for Young Carers’ project has developed tools and interventions to support the social inclusion and engagement of young carers in Germany, Italy, Greece and Scotland. The project aimed to develop these resources to support young carers and help professionals to adopt a whole family approach, encouraging open communication about illness and care in order to improve relationships within the family.

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Exploring how laws across the globe protect children’s environmental rights

Date: 7th April 2022
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Children and young people continue to be at the forefront of environmental activism. Despite climate change impacting children’s rights significantly, children continue to be excluded from decision-making processes and laws do not always protect their rights. CRIN has conducted research on 43 countries looking at how laws protect or fail children’s environmental rights, their right to protest and how children have access to courts to seek environmental justice.

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Eurochild launches second phase of its DataCare project

Date: 7th April 2022
Category: Child rights indicators

Launching in four countries – France, Ireland, Portugal and Romania - this project uses data collection, monitoring and child rights based indicators to identify the proportion of children placed in residential care compared to those placed in formal family-based care. This work aims to monitor the extent to which children in alternative care receive high quality, inclusive, family and community-based care.

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